Ageism

caliotter3 · Jan 2, 2020

1 hour ago, mikeworksRN said:
...….or a Spanish nurse ……..

This post reminded me of the time that I had had it past my earlobes at one of my agencies. I had just been told that the client family where I had been successfully working for almost an entire year, all of a sudden, supposedly requested a nurse who speaks Spanish. While I am capable of broken Spanish and understand a lot more than I can speak, I am not fluent in Spanish. No Spanish speaking clients have ever accommodated my good-natured requests to carry on business in Spanish for my edification. In this case, they had been speaking fluent English for the entire year I worked with them. I looked at the person speaking to me, in a room of all black people, except for my Caucasian features, and said with a serious tone, "I am sick and tired of being discriminated against." Well, that comment went over like a lead balloon, and it was not long before I figured out that the agency was never going to call me for work again. Some time afterward that particular agency put a qualifying statement in their staple employment website advertisement referencing languages other than English, to make it appear that speaking languages other than English is a bona fide requirement of the job. I can't explain why I missed that entire section on the NCLEX as well as that section of instruction in nursing school.

Asystole RN · Jan 3, 2020

Does any of the following apply to the family?

private employers with at least 15 employees
state governments and their political subdivisions and agencies
the federal government
employment agencies
labor organizations, and
joint labor-management committees and other training programs