Five months pregnant CNA and have job related question

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I am five months pregnant and have been looking for a job. I got a call last night and was asked if I would be interested in working a 24 hour shift with five patients who are stand by assists. Okay so I have heard the line stay assist and have been fooled before, so I am a little worried about that. Anyway, do you think that this might be too much for me to handle. By the way I have been out of work for over a month if that matters.

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I am five months pregnant and have been looking for a job. I got a call last night and was asked if I would be interested in working a 24 hour shift with five patients who are stand by assists. Okay so I have heard the line stay assist and have been fooled before, so I am a little worried about that. Anyway, do you think that this might be too much for me to handle. By the way I have been out of work for over a month if that matters.

A pregnant woman should not be lifting more than about 30 lbs at a time.

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A pregnant woman should not be lifting more than about 30 lbs at a time.

I'm 24 weeks pregnant, and if I were to tell that to my LTC facility, they would make me take a mandatory unpaid leave until I could lift again. They don't care if you're pregnant. We've had locked down pods because of a sick virus and I've had to work in them. I've had to help transfer morbidly obese residents. Either that or my rent doesn't get paid.

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