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*elticghirl
writes:I currently work for an agency as a healthcare assistant,i go to the local hospitals in the community.I do lack confidence and i find that i dont deal to well with authority,in the sense that i get really nervous and stupid around ppl who i regard as higher up than me.Now i know that is natural to a certain degree but it seems like an ongoing nightmare for me.Thats not the only thing,i tend to let ppl tell me what to do,even if i already know what im doing and there was no need for their input for instance:today a woman who is also a healthcare assistant and also works for the same agency as me came into a sideroom where i ws dealing with a patient and asked me if everything was alright,to which i said yes im fine thanks im waiting for the nurse,she then proceeded to tell me that i should maybe think about covering the patient up as they might be cold!! And you know what i did ??? I followed her instructions like a little kid,and it wasnt untill after that i realised she really patronized me.I really dont know how to start sticking up for myself and letting ppl know that i know exactly what im doing and if i need their help i will ask,and if a patient was cold then they would have told me that so basically f**k off!Has anyone ever been like this and managed to overcome it?
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reader, theaboo  +, writes (20 April 2011):
 Do you have any friends at work that can support you? You need to start small: congratulate yourself for the things you know you're good at until you're so 'cocky' about it that a blind person could see that youre in charge.. Do that in small steps until you feel comfortable. Get super friendly with the vocab and vernacular where you work, learn the acronyms.. even make up some of yuor own so people will have to ASK YOU what you're referring too. Not for anything major obviously, but for example if you have a standard Health Insurance Form, start calling it the H.I.F. Introducing new office slang should be a boost to the ego!
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