When to announce pregnancy?

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Hi everyone!

I recently started working in the ICU at my hospital. I've been here 5 months, and just recently found out that I'm pregnant. (yay, this is great news!!)

However, I'm wondering when I should report this to my manager and or charge nurses? Right now, I'm about 7 weeks along. I am a pretty private person, however I know that there are some things that I need to be careful with, such as certain isolation patients and medications. How long should I wait to tell? Any thoughts, anyone

thank you for your thoughts

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, educator.

By all means, tell your nurse manager now so that any necessary arrangements can be made for you, plus planning for when you will be off on maternity leave-your nurse manager will most likely appreciate the fact that you have given a lot of notice, and help out however s/he can. Especially if you start having a rash of morning sickness call-ins. You could also ask your manager to keep it under wraps for now, until it becomes too obvious to do otherwise. Congratulations on your awesome news, and good luck-pregnancy is a precious time, and the prize at the end makes everything else seem so insignificant!

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Your manager should know right away, for your own safety, but you can request that she keep it quiet until you're ready to share the news with your coworkers.

Congratulations!!

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Congratulations PepsiNurse! :balloons:

I Pm'd you a reply, so check your messages. ;-)

Kona

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