Thoughts on this COVID situation?

[OrlandointheWilderness]

I'm starting as a student nurse next week. Obviously we will be in hospitals for placements for blocks of a few weeks at a time.
I have a bf who has a DD. He sees DD ever week for dinner and has her every other weekend. Through lockdown he didn't physically see her at all as her mum is high risk.

I've just had a musing thought - would the risk of going on placement, going to him, him seeing DD and DD possibly passing something back to her mum bother you? I'd be horrified if she became ill because of me! It hasn't occurred to me before tbh. Obviously I'm double vaccinated.

I'm all for being careful, but you have to live your lives and need people like you to do your placements. Don't forget it works the other way around and your DB/his DD pass it to you, and in turn a patient. The best you can do is be vaccinated, do LFTs and be honest if any of you feel under the weather. If you have contact with a positive person either in hospital or your DB/his DD, I'm sure the hospital will require a PCR and LFTs which offers further protection.

Are your partner and his ex double-jabbed? If you are all double-jabbed any risk would be minimal. Your life needs to carry on. If they’re not double-jabbed, they’re at risk not just from you but anywhere they go...

Lovely that you are thinking about her. Is the DD in school? If so, that is probably at least as high a risk. As PP said, keep testing.

Welcome to the world of nursing - the constant worry of making your family ill is a real problem!

I think all you can do is be honest with your dp and he will have to decide if he is comfortable with the risk. You could stay away if you have been working with any confirmed covid cases, perhaps. I try to minimise the risk to my family by coming in through the back door into the utility room and changing clothes and washing before I have contact with anyone.

There are no easy answers though.

Thank you all. Yes we are all double jabbed and his DD is at school, as is mine.
I'll speak with him and keep testing and will of course be honest if I feel unwell.
Ah it's just decent though isn't it @RockingMyFiftiesNot!

nurses have been trying to be careful and not pass stuff onto their families for years before Covid. If you are taking all the required precautions in your placements and are double jabbed then that's all you can do. You have to live your life and progress through your nursing course. The little girl will probably be at more risk of picking something from school and giving it to her mum than getting something from you via her dad. It's nice that are thinking of her but you are probably overthinking it tbh

Thanks @itsgrand! Completely agree, probably am but it's not something I've had to be aware of before.

@OrlandointheWilderness

Thank you all. Yes we are all double jabbed and his DD is at school, as is mine. I'll speak with him and keep testing and will of course be honest if I feel unwell. Ah it's just decent though isn't it *@RockingMyFiftiesNot*!

Yes it is, but still lovely to read your OP. Hope you find your way through it x