No Ethnic DIversity

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I have seen small mom and pop home health and hospice companies lack diversity in their staff.  Like the company is ran and employed by fellow family members, friends of the family who are like ethnically.  I am curious if others see this as a negative thing.  I have strayed away from the smaller mom and pop companies just for this reason.  

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Sarcastic? No.

Unhelpful? Yes.

Silly? Yes.

Meant no offense; just commenting about the truth of the area in which I was raised. Still isn't any ethnic diversity there, either. Sorry!

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

It is interesting that when a member posts a perspective another finds offensive, then the member becomes the antagonist, worthy of negative labels, just because something may have been inferred from a question or statement.

Inference is one reason why passive-aggressive statements are so powerful and elicit negative emotions. The receiver plays the part of a victim and becomes defensive, usually attacking the person and not the premise.

 

On 6/9/2022 at 9:05 AM, Davey Do said:

We all play our parts of being either the victim, the savior, or the antagonist. 

 

 

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

santimiorgonviorvicist- a one-(wo)man band(-width) ? 

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On 6/6/2022 at 8:41 PM, Nonie76 said:

I have seen small mom and pop home health and hospice companies lack diversity in their staff.  Like the company is ran and employed by fellow family members, friends of the family who are like ethnically.  I am curious if others see this as a negative thing.  I have strayed away from the smaller mom and pop companies just for this reason.  

I find you have to watch your paycheck real closely at these places. No corporate structure to fall back on, just the mom, dad or grandpa who is running the place and it's not pleasant dealing with them. 

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On 6/8/2022 at 5:08 PM, Kyrshamarks said:

Legitimate question here.  Why does everything have to be about race? 

Legitimate answer.  It's the title of the thread.

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On 6/16/2022 at 10:56 PM, No Stars In My Eyes said:

Sarcastic? No.

Unhelpful? Yes.

Silly? Yes.

Meant no offense; just commenting about the truth of the area in which I was raised. Still isn't any ethnic diversity there, either. Sorry!

That combo made me laugh!  I'm so grateful to have spent so many decades living in the NYC area.  You just get use to working with people from around the world every day.  It really was a gift.

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On 6/15/2022 at 6:46 PM, NICU Guy said:

We should boycott Chinese restaurants because they lack ethnic diversity.

This post isn't about restaurants, it is about healthcare. It's so absurd to think an educated individual would think like this and to assume restaurants and healthcare are on the same level. This is a snide comment. 

I would hate to think I work with people who don't have any compassion for ethnic groups or any minority that has these concerns. 

 

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
13 minutes ago, faithjohn said:

This post isn't about restaurants, it is about healthcare. It's so absurd to think an educated individual would think like this and to assume restaurants and healthcare are on the same level. This is a snide comment. 

I would hate to think I work with people who don't have any compassion for ethnic groups or any minority that has these concerns. 

 

 I don't think he was being snide. I seriously doubt it shows him to be lacking in compassion. 

I took it as just being a flippant remark: like a few drops of cold water in a hot frying pan, it sizzles and is GONE.

 

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On 6/7/2022 at 12:39 PM, MelEpiRN said:

No experience with it, but I'd say both lack of diversity is a problem but also a company that is heavily staffed by family and friends? Run far far away. So many potential problems with that business model.

Yea it’s the family and friends that would stop me ?.   I mean if anything goes wrong who else is there to blame ha ha ha! 

Yup, that’s a NO!

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You have to look into the cause of the problem. Yeah...some lack of diversity; but some zip codes are predominately white, black, Hispanic or Asian only; and you cannot force some companies to hire nurses from different racial backgrounds in that situation. 

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On 6/21/2022 at 4:04 PM, faithjohn said:

This post isn't about restaurants, it is about healthcare. It's so absurd to think an educated individual would think like this and to assume restaurants and healthcare are on the same level. This is a snide comment. 

I would hate to think I work with people who don't have any compassion for ethnic groups or any minority that has these concerns. 

 

Both are businesses. If I started a company, restaurant or home healthcare business, my first hires are people I know and trust because it is my hard earned money being poured into the business. As the business grows, I will hire the most qualified person for the job regardless of ethnicity. As a patient, I would want the best, most qualified nurse that the company could hire to taking care of me and not be more concerned about her ethnicity than their skill. 

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On 6/21/2022 at 3:04 PM, faithjohn said:

This post isn't about restaurants, it is about healthcare. It's so absurd to think an educated individual would think like this and to assume restaurants and healthcare are on the same level. This is a snide comment. 

I would hate to think I work with people who don't have any compassion for ethnic groups or any minority that has these concerns. 

 

I was in Mobile, Alabama in 2017. It was an African-American gentleman who cooked my vegetable fried rice. 

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