Candidate card · Dietetics
You are the dietitianFood choices on a night shift
Setting: Outpatient nutrition clinic
Amina Khan, 29, alternates three night shifts with day shifts as a warehouse supervisor. Her three-day food record shows missed pre-shift meals and reliance on whatever the vending machine stocks.
Task
- Map meals against the rotating night shift.
- Explore storage and missed pre-shift meals.
- Agree familiar pre-shift food and a shelf-stable snack.
- Plan a two-week meal-record review without imposing a weight target.
Food choices on a night shift consultation plan
- The referral requests a regular eating plan adapted to shifts, not a weight target.
- The initial agreed options are a meal before work and a planned shelf-stable snack during the shift.
- The patient chooses culturally familiar foods; detailed portions will be agreed in a separate food-planning exercise.
- Review the meal record in two weeks and adjust to the actual shift pattern.
- Amina Khan, 29, alternates three night shifts with day shifts as a warehouse supervisor. Her three-day food record shows missed pre-shift meals and reliance on whatever the vending machine stocks.
Fictional scenario information supplied for this examination exercise; not medical guidance for real patients.