purplegoddess

Hey,

I hear you on the 12 hour nights, it's the only shift I ever work and although I love it for the lack of families at my bedside (awful I know) and minimal extra staff around messing and stressing out my N-ICU pt, it is really hard at night, sometimes for the poor choices in food and sometimes cause you just don't think before you put that mini chocolate in your mouth (oops, that's me!!) here's a suggestion for you (one of my good nights) around 10p: almonds, or apple and string cheese, 1130: a starbucks bottle drink. 2am: dinner, usually a lean cusine or soup and raspberries&pudding (so I can have something sweet) that's usually it, I also sip on black tea and lemonade mixed throughout the night. I did just get my 1st fill today though so I may be cutting meals in half, we'll see. Just wanted to share what get's me through the night shift. oh and sometimes around 530 I have a yogurt cup but not always, depends on what i finished of my dinner.