I love my job. I do well, always had great reviews and get lots of satisfaction from it.
I am currently 23 weeks pregnant. I have a big bump.
I'm feeling a lot more conscious of my own personal safety at work recently as I feel very protective of my bump.
I often have to examine patients who may be aggressive and in the past have always managed with talking them down, encouragement and have never not been able to perform a proper examination. (Sometimes this requires coming back to it in an hour)
I currently feel like I'm letting my patients down as I am keeping them more at arms length during an examination when there's a chance of being hit/kicked/bitten. This inevitably leads to not as thorough an examination and not as good a rapport between myself and my patient.
I don't know what to do about this. I don't feel that I can talk to my seniors as I work in a male dominated workplace and don't want to be seen as trying to get out of my responsibilities or as playing the 'pregnancy card.'
I am managing to perform examinations but am very inwardly nervous when doing it and they're not up to my usual standard. I obviously want to do the best for the patients.
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Feeling awful that pregnancy is affecting my ability to do my job well.
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Fedupofplaystation · 17/07/2014 14:08
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