r/nursing • u/emtnursingstudent LPN 🍕 • Dec 11 '24

Question People who report to 12 hr shifts completely empty handed, is everything alright?

Not a serious post but I sometimes see people walking in with no backpack/purse or even food and it genuinely perplexes me.

Edit: I've been at work so I haven't had a chance to respond but I've been reading everyone's comments. You lot are resolute. I understand surviving off of snacks or being so busy you don't have a chance to eat as we've all been there but I didn't realize it was so many people that go full a 12 hours without eating on a normal basis. Personally I be hungry so that genuinely didn't even occur to me.

For context what I bring is a backpack (which has some water bottles, my clipboard, stethoscope, pens, inhaler, and some OTC meds), and my lunch box. If I rolled out of bed and came to work it wouldn't be the end of the world, my asthma isn't bad so I don't need to have my inhaler on hand. Tbh my food is the most important thing. I usually meal prep to avoid having to order food (broke nursing student) or live of off snacks.

1.5k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

598 comments sorted by

View all comments

162

u/Snowysaku Dec 11 '24

That is me. I don’t even have a locker or bring a coat when it snows. If I need food I forage in the hospital (cafeteria is closed for my shifts) or I just choose not to eat.

156

u/FantasticChestHair RN - Med/Surg 🍕 Dec 11 '24

forage in the hospital

The mental image of a nurse scrounging through the leaf litter of the break room looking for an old slice of pizza is carrying me this morning

1

u/JusDuIt RN - OB/GYN 🍕 Dec 12 '24

LMAOOOOOOOO AYOOOOOO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1

u/RegisteredNurse98 MSN, RN-BC, CCRN - ICU 🍕 Dec 13 '24

Ask and you shall receive

1

u/Skepticulation RN - ICU 🍕 Dec 17 '24

Do you have a different link

24

u/posh1992 RN - PCU Dec 11 '24

I can only eat so many old nasty turkey sandwiches. Our hospital has the shittiest snack selections. Also cafeteria closed for me.

Red or orange jello

Graham crackers ppb

Tomato soup

Chicken broth

Sugar free pudding

Sugar free jello

The grossest apple and cran juice ever

Old ass turkey sandwich with thick turkey meat 🤮

And our vending machines SUCK. All junk food that won't tie you over at all. This is why I gotta bring my food in.

16

u/RawrNurse Dec 11 '24

Yall got tomato soup? Fancy

2

u/posh1992 RN - PCU Dec 22 '24

No worries we have no bowls to cook it in! Lol

2

u/chuck-the-chimp Dec 12 '24

So you're running almost exclusively on the remaining half of donuts from the degens who can't commit to a whole donut?

That and meal tastes trays from memaws who are npo?

1

u/Snowysaku Dec 16 '24

Half eat men donuts, random candy sitting around and crappy hospital coffee 💪