Pocket Snacks for 12 Hour Shift?

[westieluv]

I just started a new job working three 12 hour shifts a week. I love the job, but sometimes it requires us to go several hours between having anything to eat, and, while I'm not diabetic or anything, I am someone who gets nauseous when I get really hungry, which I do between breaks on this job. I can deal with plain, old hunger, it's the nausea and it can be distracting if it is bad enough. If I eat even something tiny it works to hold me over and relieve the hunger/nausea until I can go on break.

Does anyone else have this problem, and if so, can you recommend some little something that I can carry with me to hold me over and alleviate the hunger/nausea between breaks? Healthy, small, portable...something I can basically carry with me and pop into my mouth if I step off the floor for a second and then come right back. Picture carrying individually wrapped hard candies in your pocket; something that neat, quick and portable, only not unhealthy like candy.

I know it's a tall order, but does anyone have any ideas? I love my job but I don't want to end up feeling sick when I'm there.

[rachel100639]

I did not see where the original poster stated, "until this underlying issue can be fixed." The fact is, no one mentioned the underlying issue - at all. Unless I missed that somewhere. Did I? As I read my post again, I do not see where I wrote that nurses shouldn't eat. Please point out where I said that. Do you not agree that it is abusive that nurses are not given the time to take care of their health?

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

According to her tag line, yes. And in multiple states apparently! I surmise this from her titles of LPN AND LVN as only two states in the nation have Lvn's

Rachel are you a nurse? The reality for most nurses is that they don't have time to eat because the floors are under staffed and nurses are overworked.

Not ideal at all, and that's why many nurses choose to leave bedside nursing.

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

Rachel has since added her credentials, so we can now see she is a nurse Bucky.

@ Rachel, many of us would probably agree that the working conditions for many nurses are abusive. However, the working conditions are not likely to improve anytime soon, so we adapt.

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

Yes, that would explain my response saying "according to her tag line, yes"

Rachel has since added her credentials, so we can now see she is a nurse Bucky.

@ Rachel, many of us would probably agree that the working conditions for many nurses are abusive. However, the working conditions are not likely to improve anytime soon, so we adapt.

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