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I'm a new foreign graduate (with US citizenship) and am thinking about settling in NY to look for work. Presuming I actually overcome the hurdles foreign grads face in landing US nursing jobs, I'm just wondering what the typical patients are like in NY? I used to reside in California and I hear that New Yorkers tend to be more up front and abrasive, and that you need a thicker skin?

I haven't logged on in a while and only just now did I see the backlash my question raised.

I want to extend my most sincere, heartfelt apologies to everyone for its insensitive tone. I guess I just wasn't thinking when I posted it. I thought it was an innocent question but I realize now how so wrong I was. I am so very very sorry. My question did not come from a place of prejudice or anything negative except maybe just outright ignorance. Yes, I am a new grad, and I also happen to be gay, and a minority. I was raised in California, which is also a large cultural melting pot, and I am not racist or consciously prejudiced in any way. But I am truly sorry for my insensitivity.

The reason I asked in the first place was just because I may be relocating to NY, and I have had issues with social anxiety that I'm still actively working on. It's not that I would not care any more or any less for any particular kind of patient; I would try to treat them all as best I could. I know some patients will be more irritable or combative than others, and these are the people for whom I would have to develop a thicker skin. It's something I am working on.

I guess I just wanted to stimulate discussion but I should have been more mindful about how. This has been a mistake on my part and again I am sorry. I hope you can forgive me.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.

So in order to show New Yorkers as NOT abrasive, everyone decided to be abrasive? ROFL!

OP, every area has its own personality. Try it out by shadowing if you can. I'm sure you'll get your answer.

From a born and bred New Yorker.

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
So in order to show New Yorkers as NOT abrasive everyone decided to be abrasive? ROFL! [/quote']

Lmao! The irony.

Sincerely, another born and bred Noo Yawkah :)

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