Does a device like this just not exist?

I’m in nursing school and my god, group projects are NIGHTMARES. I have clinicals in a few weeks and based off past experience from two jobs (that I had to quit because of my hearing loss), they’re not gonna go well with how things are at the moment.

ALL I want is a device (similar to a microphone/FM) that picks up voices in FRONT of it, not above it (aka my voice). I can’t give a microphone to a patient, I can’t set it down on a table to reorient it, I can’t give it to the nurse that’s supervising me.

Even my audiologists at the Mayo Clinic don’t know of a device that does this.

The problem is I absolutely have to wear it, or use no mic at all (which is basically a one way ticket to failing/dropping out). My left ear uses a Resound ENZO hearing aid and my right ear uses a Kanso 2 processor.

My processor is really new (activated in late July) so I can’t really rely on it for speech recognition.

Unfortunately CART isn’t an option because running around with it is really inconvenient, and I wasn’t ever taught sign language so an interpreter wouldn’t be helpful :(

Does anyone know of a device that can help me at all?