I don't routinely miss lunches per say. I do on occasion. I've learned to take lunch right at 11am or as soom as possible. A lot of nurses I know won't take an early lunch and will wait until later in the day when we are too busy and that's why they miss them. I just literally had too much going on at the time. I could have maybe taken a lunch but it would have delayed patient care too long or my patient was too sick and it would have been detrimental to their care. For instance, I had a couple intubated patients come in throughout the day and it was touch and go with their blood pressure or in one case her ET tube wasn't working right and the doctor had to re-intubate from the one the paramedic had placed. It wasn't lack of desire to take a lunch, but just lack of a chance. We did have a float that came in at 1p, but he was slammed helping everyone. He did finally cover me for about 15 minutes so I had a chance to eat some popcorn (someone had taken my lunch out of the fridge for some reason and my sandwich was bad... so annoying). But, 15 minutes to slam down some food I don't count as a lunch really. However, it was better than nothing. Also, at 7pm shift change I took another 15 minutes. So, it wasn't that I didn't get anything, but I didn't get enough to count as lunch either.