Mike Hunt

1. Doesn't sound like an ethnicity issue, more like a white women being extra and bored. It's definitely condescending but those **** would likely do the same thing to any nurse they see as inferior to them. Nurses are cutthroat, vicious, think they know you better than you know you, and this can be interpreted as racism. Which it might be but I highly doubt these girls hold a prejudice against tan people. Those same girls go to extreme lengths to become tan. It's not a skin color thing 2. Read the 48 Laws of Power; I'm serious, this book explains all human behavior 3. Coworkers doing your job for you is a good thing. If you have good enough social skills you can get coworkers to do a significant amount of work for you 4. Complaining is rocking the boat; don't do that unless you have to 5. Try to get a transfer or job in a less racist place; there are plenty

This is a physical therapy question. First and foremost, your back and health is more important to you than any patient. Do not enter any situation where your well-being is questioned. If you absolutely cannot find someone else to do the job, then do everything you can to promote safety and prevent injury. I'd recommend using a gait belt and doing the egress test to see how mobile the patient actually is before using lifts. If she soils herself then so be it; cleaning her is ultimately up to you. You can probably get a CNA/PCT to deal with that. Hopefully. However you should still encourage the patient to do as much as she can, which might be a foreign concept to her. Help the patient or don't, the choice is yours. Your back and career is infinitely more important to you.

One seizure per week sounds like something that might impact your job performance. Let's be real here, there's about a 100% chance that you will seize at a very unfortunate time...maybe unfortunate is not the word; you will seize when your job needs you the most. Just assume the worst things will happen. However you can almost certainly still do your job if you downplay your medical issues - nurses have done much worse things and still kept their jobs for years. Do with this information what you will.