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So I'll gice a bit more background on me so that when people want to give their opinion they are better informed. I was raised in a predominately Hispanic community and yes I am Cuban ancestry born American with very tan skin. If that even matters lol. I grew up with friends of many ethnicities.. white, black etc. I always heard from my black friends how racism was still going on and since I was a part of the majority I disagreed and told them they were crazy. Well one month into my new town and new job I called each one of them and apologized because of what I was already experiencing at work and in the community. I was in shock things were still like this. Well 11 and a few months later it's gottwn progressively worse at work and I actually avoid going out much to not interact with the public due.. yes I agree pretty sad lol. The big lesson learned here FOR ME.. I have no right to tell someone if a different background, orientation or any other difference that they are not being discriminated against. For those of you that have never felt racism first hand it is quite simply the worst feeling. Being made to feel less than human was a very messed up experience. What's really scary is as we all know the color of our skin is just pigmentation so anyone that thinks it determines their worth well they are just plain stupid and I would t want someone that stupid putting a needle in me or hanging a med. I will apologize if I offended anyone with my OP and I do agree with some of your comments even though they differ from mine. I have had long conversations with my wife the past few days and have decided we will be leaving this part of town once her commitment is complete. She was a new grad rn with a contract. About 5 months to go. She has experienced similar situations in a separate hospital owned by the same health system. Yea scary right. We feel like it's not worth the fight we are empty nesters who changed careers and both feel like nursing is a calling for us and just want to have peaceful lives and peaceful jobs. I'm even considering leaving my specialty for a cushy urgent care job and I am currently negotiating pay for a job doing sedation with an anesthesiologist at private practices throughout or soon to be new city. For those of you that attacked me well I will say this. Next time you invite your friends over for dinner look around the table before your quick to say racism or discrimination is overstated these days. I know I don't feel guilty when I invite my mixed bag of friends over.

I understand what your saying apple however I'm of the mindset, it's prolly not the first time this happens just the first time it bite the doctor in the @&$?!...and in regards to compensation. Of course you should, maybe it's on your job description but not on mine and I do not work for free for anyone.

Well I've pretty much decided I'm going to keep my mouth shut about all the racist comments I hear all the time. The two I posted were just two. The next nearest hospital system is about an hour drive and I have a family and a mortgage so I will make sure my patients get the right care the rest is someone else's problem. In terms of the raise yea I can ask they willl say no and we will go from there if I want to pursue it more. And for the person that posted about communication. Yes it is our job to communicate but it's not a rn job to be bilingual. If that was the case we wouldn't have many nurses. The most disheartening thing I hear is when people say your in America learn English. That has to be the most ignorant comment I've ever heard. I guess racism is alive and well.

I'm replying here as best I can to all the replies and thank you all for your thoughts. Do the minority patients receive standard care? I can only speak to the comments I've heard but have never actually it seen it take place but I can tell you I wouldn't bring any of my families here. In regards to the plane comment. They aren't travel medical. The comment was in reference to the immigrants coming to the USA. AND YEA UR DAM RIGHT I WANT A RAISE. I got hired to be a rn not a translator.

Hello haven't posted in a while. quick background before the meat. So I work at a fairly large health system, they currently own 95% market share so options here are not many. If you look at the pictures of the board of directors, they are all white. All my charge rn, the dept director, and her four clinical supervisors are all white. I happen to not be white, and I am bilingual. I have heard comments from physicians like: "they get off the plane and want us to fix all their problems". "That pt doesn't pass the smell test, hispanics are too emotional." The second comment was about my pt who came in with acute head pain worst of her life. History of Htn among other things and geriatric. I wanted to get her cleared for a stroke...the md never even came to the room. Waited and hour. Cat wouldn't take her stat cause it wasn't ordered stat. Well I gave report went home. Next day was told she ended up having a bleed. Now md won't even make eye contact with me. So I'm asked to translate all the time and now I'm told by triage and the charge and the clinical sups that I get certain PTs cause they only speak Spanish. My one year review is coming and I'm thinking of asking for a nice raise because speaking Spanish and translating are not in the job description...I checked. If they don't give it to me is it discrimination? Should I keep my minority mouth shut and just be happy I'm getting a paycheck? I was born in the USA. Technically I'm not a minority...right?