jbrevia

Racism :angryfire in a top private catholic university in this country, but then you can't expect anything better from a country that hides it racist practices in general. I once had an anglo nurse co-worker that said nursing was hard, well I replied to her you yes that is very true, but try being a person of color in this field, that was far harder than any other obstacle, as with just living in this racist country is. I was a young nurse and later learned that not only was there racism from anglo( and any other person that thought they could pass for anglo co-workers), but from administration,physicians,patients etc. To top that off I found out that nurses ate their young and from I hear they still do. Nursing was a very traumatizing experience for me, the only part that was rewarding was being an advocate, but I was a called nurse, so all a university and state boards did was make it legal according to today's standards. Thank goodness I didn't let it steal my spirit from me.

Yes the texas hill country-kerrville is lovely and the weather is nice, it gets cool in the evenings and the hills are beautiful and the people are really friendly. If you get a chance, maybe take a mini vacation there-they have reasonal extended stay inns in the area that i stayed for 6wks. No one mentioned San Antonio, which it is hot, but the humidity is nothing like Houston or even Dallas and it's weather is more moderate, with maybe getting some ice once every 10-20 yrs, but it can go down to the 20's in the winter. It is home of the famous river walk with the river going through the city. It also has some great medical centers, including the Veterans Med Admin Center and BAMC a state of the art military hospital. Then the city offers public health nursing and of course there is research at the Univer Medical Center Hosp which is connected to the VAMC. It is home of Fiesta usually in April where the city has events all over the city and people worldwide visit this event that lasts for 10 days. Texas is so large 2nd largest state in the union that offers a variety of activities. I have lived in many states on the east coast and traveled to the west coast, but I have lived off and on in tx since 1984 including west tx and even the small town of big spring was nice to me, but hated the water there, but the big scenic mountain there i loved. So as you can see there is a lot happening in TX, not to mention many nurses choose correctional nursing which i worked also. TX has the only free-standing hospital in the nation for inmates in galveston, tx an island with i think if it is still the same may have one way on the island and one way off at the most 2. I worked at UTMB a great teaching hospital, where you can pick up some of the greatest skills there are for a beginning nurse and when i was there the staff was friendly, we even use to have little sabbatical meetings on the beach, it was a nice experience, so get out and explore while you have your youth. Nothing is in stone so if you really don't like it, you can always make changes since nursing is a wide open field.

I understand more than you would ever know. Best to you!