Need some advice ladies, I have agonised over this and feel awful about doing it but I've been struggling for weeks.
So I'm a nurse on a busy stroke unit so you can imagine my job is really physical. I have pgp, feel breathless and sick all the time, keep waking up with severe pain in my sternum and have had loads of migraines in the last few weeks. I last worked on Saturday and ended up sat on the floor in the clinic crying while I was meant to be making Iv meds for a patient who couldn't breathe. Anyway, it's made me realise work isn't safe for me or baby, and I'm not safe for my patients. So my question is, how do I ask my doctor to sign me off? I only have 3 weeks until I go on annual leave and then my mat leave will start but I just can't do it. I've only been signed off once before after my mmc in January and I was just given a sick note with the information about my options. I feel bad taking up a valuable appointment just to ask for a sick note because there's not really anything my gp can do about the symptoms.
Sorry this is very rambly but any advice would be appreciated.
So I'm a nurse on a busy stroke unit so you can imagine my job is really physical. I have pgp, feel breathless and sick all the time, keep waking up with severe pain in my sternum and have had loads of migraines in the last few weeks. I last worked on Saturday and ended up sat on the floor in the clinic crying while I was meant to be making Iv meds for a patient who couldn't breathe. Anyway, it's made me realise work isn't safe for me or baby, and I'm not safe for my patients. So my question is, how do I ask my doctor to sign me off? I only have 3 weeks until I go on annual leave and then my mat leave will start but I just can't do it. I've only been signed off once before after my mmc in January and I was just given a sick note with the information about my options. I feel bad taking up a valuable appointment just to ask for a sick note because there's not really anything my gp can do about the symptoms.
Sorry this is very rambly but any advice would be appreciated.