The Acutual Condition of Food Lives for Nurses to be Working in Three Shifts

Abstract

We investigated on the present state how 59 nurses on working on three shift system, took foods and drinks for their daily meal time and how they understood on their taking nutrition.
Especially, we examined the relationship between the quantity of nutrition and knowledge of nutrition, as well as pattern of their works in the system.
1. Nurses, remakedly took less energies, proteins, calciums and irons than other women.
2. Their food-lives were not influenced by the life-back ground and eating habits, but by their working patterns.
3. About 60% of nurses were usually taking no breakfast, because they were forced by their irregular life rhythm of the shift working system.
4. The frequency of omitting the breakfast was higher in the evening shift workers, while omitting the lunch in the night shift workers.
5. Omitting meals caused approximately 20% of reduction of nutrition; usually omitting lunch much more reducing nutrition than omitting breakfast.
Thus, reduction of nutrition seems to be caused by the pattern of three shift working system.