Need some advice from you ladies about my job, people arent being so nice to me :(?

im a certified nursing assistant and am pregnant with my first child. The place where i work has a very heavy load of patients who are very large. The problem is i cant be lifting 200 pound men alone, and when i call for help no one helps me. Im so upset every time i come home from work and i feel like crying at work. Im about to have my dr put me on light duty for work. No one will help me so wouldn't you ask to be put on light duty?Need some advice from you ladies about my job, people arent being so nice to me :(?
Absolutely you should be put on light duty. Your first responsibility is now to your child and if you think lugging around 200 pounds of anything will put your baby at risk then you need to transfer duties.





And anyone in the health profession should support this decision. Shame on them for not helping a pregnant woman lift something heavy!!Need some advice from you ladies about my job, people arent being so nice to me :(?
i am also a cna but i did home health when i was pregnant i had to quit because i also couldnt lift patients. im sure you know in most nursing homes the workers dont want to help patients muchless a fellow employee so if i were you i would either tell your charge nurse(haha) and if shes no help and you have to work thru pregnancy try an assisted living place where they arent totally bedridden and you dont have to lift. good luck!!
first go to your supervisor and tell him that if he needs you to stay on regular duty someone needs to be able to help you when you call (and if you don't get that help even with light duty then you will be put on bed rest because of the stress and won't even be able to work anyway and it seems like they would like having you there and not be one person down)
Oh most defo , They HAVE to help you or id be frog marching to the manager/boss to mention it.


How far pregnant are you? maybe if you are not showing they dont realise as believe it or not people act differently when your actually showing its like they suddenly believe you .


You defo need to have a word with the boss hun %26amp; yes get yourself that light work note !


good luck %26amp; congrats x
You should discuss this issue with your doctor. If this is a job you were doing before you got pregnant and your pregnancy is going along well, there may not be any reason you can't continue doing it as usual. Generally, with a healthy pregnancy, problems are more common when you do things that you aren't used to doing. If you feel uncomfortable doing the lifting than instead of calling for help, you should speak to your supervisor about your concerns. I am sure the other nursing assistants have their own patients to lift so perhaps a schedule needs to be made that allows for another assistant to help you lift than you can give some of your time to help them do something, too. You may be going about asking for help in the wrong way. I think you should speak with your doctor and your supervisor to see what can be worked out. ADDED: When you went to your supervisors was it just to complain or did you approach them with some type of plan? Perhaps they didn't say anything because it seemed like you were just venting. Be specific and say you need help lifting and you'd like their help working out a solution. Offer some suggestions. Put yourself in another person's position. If a fellow nursing assistant was pregnant and needed help lifting what would you be willing to do to help her? Could you job share with one of the other assistant's so he/she could help you lift and than you help do some of their work? Perhaps 2 of you could take care of the same number of patients and work together to do all the tasks.