Nurses Will Eat Anything

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Have you ever heard or said that to a family member?

whats the weirdest thing someone has brought for you or your staff to eat?

I think the sickest thing was a patient brought some balout, the duck eggs........Well its sick to me anyways.......

We had a patient overnight some white castle burgers one time.........

Specializes in Psychiatric.

Going back to posts about kimchi, my aunt is from Korea and while I love most of her cooking, I could never eat kimchi...cucumber kimchi is her favorite one to make and watching the preparations turned me against it forever and ever LOL...I distinctly remember her keeping it jarred for about a month after it was prepared, and then opening it to finish preparing...OMG the smell would knock you down! :chuckle

She does make a dish that is a kind of clear spicy noodle with veggies that you eat with what tastes like a thick potato pancake...and something called brigogi that's like a kind of marinated Asian rib...THOSE I can eat all day!! YUM!! But no kimchi! LOL

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Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.

I'm a big fan of the day old cold pizza....Can't beat it. :) Kinda bad when the food carts start to smell good. -A

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I'm sure some of you have also eaten a NAS, mechanical soft meal that was meant for a patient that was discharged and dietary didn't know about it. :chuckle

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
I'm sure some of you have also eaten a NAS, mechanical soft meal that was meant for a patient that was discharged and dietary didn't know about it. :chuckle

Ah, yes........I've been that desperate a few times in my career! :uhoh21:

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.
It was shift change one day, and we went ion the break room. There was a basket with bread, flower, chips, pretzels, fruit and some other stuff in it. the basket was wrapped neatly in clear like celefane. The note said it was to "_________" RN for such good care. He has not come in yet. We decided to leave it out in the open for him to see. It was 3:10pm at that time. We went out and took report from 1st shift. 1st shift then went back to the break room to get ready to leave for the day.

I walked back to the break room/locker room at 3:25pm to get something oout of my locker. The basket was unwrapped, empty with nothing but open bags, and crumbes on the table. The entire first shift demolished the thing in less than 5 minutes flat!!!! The worst part of it was, the nurse it was meant for never even had a chance to see it!

It's happened where I work too. I think that is disgusting.

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In the OR where I work, we will eat anything. The only thing that I remember that no one could eat was the day that one of the staff made brownies early in the morning. She didn't have oil and used solid shortening instead. She said that she could hear them "frying" in the oven. When they cooled, they would have made good building material. They didn't break even when you threw them on the floor. Even now more than 10 years later we laugh about the wad brownies.

For one of the docs birthday, we provided a beautifully decorated styrofoam cake. Each time someone tried to cut it, someone else would repair the icing to be ready for the next victim.

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Specializes in Rodeo Nursing (Neuro).

It has been my sad experience that nursing students will eat things nurses won't. Especially if it can be eaten in the car, on the way to or from class or clinicals. But we do have some standards, unlike doctors...

A little off topic, but I had been working in healthcare a month when I heard we were bringing in food for the 4th of July. I baked a pineapple upside-down cake (from a mix) and have not been able to make a serious mistake in almost seven years since then.

Something I plan to remember when I start as a nurse.

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When I did home care I had a Pakistani lady who needed insulin every day. Her daughter would hand me a slightly oily paper bag full of food when I made my visits out there, and I never had a clue what it was, but it was always delicious. I learned not to try too hard to identify it, just to eat it, LOL. She could do things with rice (I think) and raisins (I hope) that were seriously yummy.

Another patient's dad went hunting for sturgeon one year and gave me almost a pound of fresh Beluga caviar. At the time, that was like $600 worth of caviar, and I ate every scrap of it in a great big scary caviar orgy. Yum.

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Specializes in Public Health, DEI.

Our office manager is from Korea and sometimes he brings some mighty unpleasant looking food. I'm usually afraid to ask what it is. Not my cup of tea, for sure.

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I have noticed throughout the years on WHATEVER unit I have worked on that the busier and crazier it is, the more then tendency is to snack on whatever is available, especially if lunch or dinner or any kind of break is out of the picture..My favorites, pizza, despite how old it might be ( I just hope for less than 24 hours) or cold (something I picked up in nursing school), or leftover birthday cake . I was always insulted (sort of) by the dropping off of whatever the big wigs wouldn't or didn't finish in their hoity toity meetings, doled out to those of us on the off shifts BUT I notice I have occasionally gone through it and eaten it due to starving on those wild and crazy nights. We had a patient send over lobster dinners for the nurses and even though I am a Cape Cod native, I hate lobster....But, it was a nice thought though..

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One of our docs just brought some roasted chestnuts...mmmmmmmmm

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:p Oooooooh, I forgot all about this one: we had a patient bring us in--get ready for this one--Ostrich meat. Tasted somewhat like summer sausage, but spongier. :uhoh3:
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