Student Nurse Proctor

Hi All, just some advise needed
I was given a 14 week placement to finish my MH nursing course.
At the start of the 14 weeks I found out I’m pregnant. The symptoms really hit me hard in the first ten weeks. I missed a lot of my shifts and had a lot of absences. I’ve been ‘finished’ that placement for a month now.
My problem is due to an act of desperation, I falsified some hour don my timesheet and this was raised with the university and I have now been reported to e university proctor team, and currently 19 weeks pregnant.
I’m ready to take full accountability for my actions but, the deed has already been done. Does anyone have some advise for me or been in a situation with the proctor team?

Congratulations on your pregnancy news.
Unfortunately what tends to happen when a nursing student finds out that they are pregnant during the year the university will obviously be wanting to know all the required information about your pregnancy and when you are due so that they can hopefully arrange things for you for either on placement or attending university studies weeks due to health and safety rules that they have to put into place to support you.
They tend to get you to go on maternity leave around 11 weeks prior to the birth of the baby but as long as everything is going well with this there's nothing to stop you continuing with your degree BUT if they allow you to continue on then what happens is that when you have one day sickness day due to your pregnancy they then tend to put you onto maternity leave automatically after that as they usually have this in writing stating it.
Now you have said that you have had a lot of time off during your placement 😔 😔 😔 which they could have easily said to you " sorry you need to go on maternity leave until you have your baby and you keep in touch with the university throughout" and then discuss a return to start date for when you want to go back to continue with your nursing.
You have done the worst thing possible by falsifying your amount of hours you have done hoping you would get away with it but unfortunately it caught up with you because the places has to notify them that you have done xx hours per week etc throughout the placement.
With you admitting your guilt to them will be recorded but whatever they decide to do with you is going to be up to them.
Hopefully they will take into consideration what you been through and maybe give you one more opportunity to do your nursing degree ( remember that you'll miss some of your course's due to your birth and you usually need to take a minimum of 12 weeks leave after the birth before you can return back to your nursing degree but see what they say about it okay.
A NHS dual adult and midwife nurse.

Hi 👋 thanks so much for this comment. It really did help me calm my nerves. I just had the meeting with the proctor and everything went well! I did honestly apologized and take accountability which they appreciated.
This will DEFINITELY not be happening again. I’ve learnt from my mistake and deeply regret it.

Hi Rebecca
Apologies for the late response back due to busy time at work.
I'm glad my comments helped you calmed your nerves.
Sometimes talking about something like this actually helps with your nerves so it would be a relief for you doing so.
I'm pleased that your meeting with the proctor went well.
The main thing is you admitted to what happened and you apologize for your accountability and that they accepted it from you.
What was the outcome of the meeting with them, what sort of punishment if any did they give you or did they give you a severe warning and not do it again.
I'm again pleased to hear that you have said that " it will definitely not be happening again as you learnt from the mistakes and you have regretted it", that's take a lot of courage to do after what you done. Hopefully you are feeling good after all of this. And yes looking back at it you'll be thinking 🤔 🤔 I shouldn't have been straight from the beginning about this.

Hello 👋
I just wanted to come back to this post as it had completely slipped my mind.
The outcome was I had to write a reflective piece.
I’ve had my baby and she’s now 11 weeks old!
I did a placement to make up some time when I was 30-36 weeks pregnant as got a everything signed!
I’m have just 6 weeks left of placement to do , which I’m hoping to start next week, before I become qualified 😊
I just want to come back to say thank you for your comment! It really has helped me towards the end of my journey!! ❤️