New Grad- Santa Cruz, CA area

Sam J. · Jan 25, 2014

Maxim (Bayada is another big player) has 1000's of home cases that require 24/7 PDN (trachs, vents, feeding tubes, pediatrics, etc.) if you can see yourself sitting at the ready by a bed for the shift. Not my cup of tea. They say they require a year experience, but I hear they hire almost anybody and teach vent care to employees. There's a section in here that tells all about privaty duty nursing.

ndylla · Jan 25, 2014

I did find a job. It is a commute but I can't complain. What area are you in? It is so tough out here! I feel your pain.

kme1982 · Jan 26, 2014

I live in Gilroy right now. May I ask where you were able to find a job? We should chat :) I just moved from MN too. I don't know how ot private message someone on here.

ndylla · Jan 26, 2014

I did find the private messaging, however you have to have "15 quality posts" to use it since people were abusing it. Soo... here is my email [email protected].

kme1982 · Jan 26, 2014

I just sent you an email :)

Sam J. · Jan 26, 2014

I did have an interview at a SNF in San Jose off Winchester and was told (still can't believe this) that preference was given to Filipino graduates from the bay area. I was told this in my interview- I could not believe it....

It's true all over the Bay area, and also all over the LA area. It's a well-known but generally unspoken situation referred to as 'the filipino mafia'. But until now I've never heard of an employer actually admitting it. So much for blatant discrimination being illegal, eh?

kme1982 · Jan 27, 2014

Sam I tried to send you a PM but it says I'm not able to because I have not contributed to 15 or most posts..... Your message made me laugh though :)

Sam J. · Jan 27, 2014

Sam I tried to send you a PM but it says I'm not able to because I have not contributed to 15 or most posts..... Your message made me laugh though :)

If it weren't true it WOULD be funny, eh?

Jayne47 · Jan 28, 2014

If it weren't true it WOULD be funny, eh?

:) :) :) funny.

Jayne47 · Jan 28, 2014

It's true all over the Bay area, and also all over the LA area. It's a well-known but generally unspoken situation referred to as 'the filipino mafia'. But until now I've never heard of an employer actually admitting it. So much for blatant discrimination being illegal, eh?

Read from the above previous post re: their(employers) preferences in employment. Its not right,Shame on her/him for saying that. Lame excuse?!! What happened to the Equal Employment Opportunity Law.

I'm a Filipino. I want to be hired not because of my ethnicity, color of the skin, gender or anything that defines my individuality. I want to be hired because I've worked hard to earn my degree, eventhough foreign Grad and I studied my bu** off to passed the stateboard as much as the next person who passed the stateboard.

Wishful Thinking...That's it's true , so then I will not be anxious with all the waiting for the results of the countless applications I've sent to diff Agencies, SNF, Hospital & etc ^_^

Sam J. · Jan 28, 2014

Speaking of immigrants, it's possible that they were the only nurses some places could find years ago to work in those places, and it just evolved to the point that it became the status quo to only hire immigrant nurses, as a matter of routine, because immigrants were the only people that even applied to those places. Maybe it evolved so far, in fact, that that manager felt so blithely comfortable telling the poster what she told him? In reality discrimination happens everyhere, in every type of job, whther on purpose or not. It is what it is. As far as equal opportuniy laws- on paper they sound nice, enforcing them, like millions of other laws, is a different story.