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Meals to eat on afternoon and nightshift?Rating: (votes: 0) What does everyone else take to work? Any good suggestions that will fill me up but not bloat me out? Thanks in advance. I like to take a small baked potato with a choice of whatever filling appeals to you.However whenever I take that I have no time to heat it bup let alone eat it. Finger food I think is best - unfortunately you tend to eat lots when that happens because we take enough for all the nurses on the ward. Comment:
I bring soup most nights- it's hot and filling but not bloating. You can make it yourself and keep in a thermos, or you can buy those ones pre-made in microwaveable bowls. Also bring maybe a piece of fruit or something and you will be in good shape. Other people I know swear by peanut butter and crackers or cheese and crackers with fruit. Don't forget to drink a lot of water through the night too, that will help you stay awake. good luck
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Fruit, (sugar-free) yogurt, and string cheese are my staples. I have found that they don't make me sleepy, and I can eat them on the fly. Eating a small meal or meals (I count one string cheese as a meal on a busy night haha) made up mainly of protein keeps me fueled but not bloated. I used to eat mainly carbs all night for their little energy boost, but I found that I crashed after an hour or two and was starving when I got home in the morning.
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I'll warm up a can of Progresso or Healthy Choice soup in the microwave at work. It is filling, digests quickly, and low on calories. Sometimes the soup will be accompanied with a side salad. My favorite night shift snacks include cheese, granola bars, and diet cola.
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I eat dinner about 7pm, before work. I'm just suprised how many people bring and eat a large meal after 12 MN. Then they wonder why they want to sleep half the night. I bring my crystal light/water and drink that throughout the night and I eat a piece of fruit around 2-3am. I'm good until I get home for breakfast. No bloating, but I water the loo a couple of times in 8 hours. I don't work the evening shift, I'm full time nights.
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Thanks guys and gals. I am worried about crashing and burning half way through the night, or just when I have to start the med round before 6 am. These tips are good ideas, keep them coming!Also do you limit your caffeine on nightshift and what time do you find you hit the wall? I've been told this is a nightshift phenomenon, and since I'm doing 10 hours, it will be a bigger than usual stretch for me. So I'm wondering how I stay awake? And I can't sleep during the day either - even when I am sick or really tired so how do you get any shut eye b4 nights?Cheers. Cazza
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Hey, try staying up as late as you can the night before your night shift, like (if possible) until 1 or 2 in the morning. (this is a good time to catch up on reading or TV shows or have a movie marathon, haha!) Then sleep as late as you can in the morning. Try if possible to at least lie down in a quiet dark room for a few hours in the afternoon, and rest your eyes; even if you can't get all the way to sleep, that will usually help at least a bit.As for the caffeine, I am unfortunately an excessive soda drinker, at all hours of the day or night, so it doesn't really have an effect on me any more. Coffee on the other hand, which I rarely drink: if I drink a cup after say 3 or 4 in the morning, it's a lot harder to get to sleep during the day!Somewhere between 3 and 5 is usually when I hit the wall if I'm going to- usually it's actually worse if it's not a busy night, b/c when it's busy the adrenaline and "busyness" keeps me going. I try to get up and do something physical, even if just to walk around the unit, at those times. And drink a glass of really cold water.These are just random specific things that work best for me; hopefully others will have some better ideas
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4got to add I will be working in a nursing home with 80 residents and I am the only RN on, so I will need my wits about me Am also supervising 3 carers/ENs too! Suppose I am just stressing a bit re how I will cope.Thanks
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I've recently started weight watchers so my meals at night have changed a bit. Mostly I bring a turkey sandwich or left overs from dinner. Then I have my large quantity of snacks to add to my night meal. I have one or two different veggies, crackers, string cheese or laughing cow cheese, and fruit. Sometimes I'll mix it up and add yogurt or other goodies.
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I should also mention that I sleep until right before my shift begins. My shift starts at 6:00pm, so I awaken at 4:30pm. If I am sleeping up until the moment that it is time to prepare for work, I almost never become tired while working night shift.When I worked 8-hour night shifts (10pm to 6am), I awakened at 8:30pm.
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