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Food 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.