UCSD - age discrimination

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Just curious. In the past when I have posted resumes with UCSD, at the end of the application, it asks for the year you graduated as an RN. Is this a way to get around age discrimination?

Specializes in med/surg.
No. But I believe date of graduation could easily provide a close approximation to age.

I don't know how they could make an approximate estimate if you have taken time out, raised kids, did not work in nursing for certain periods of time. It is just a curiousty. I really have no intention of refiling again. It is known around San Diego to be "Little Manila." A protected class I am told that seems to reign in all the hospitals.

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No. But I believe date of graduation could easily provide a close approximation to age.

i don't know how?

as morte said, what about those of us who went to nsg school later in life?

your premise red, assumes graduation immediately following hs/college.

this is clearly not the case anymore.

leslie

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Specializes in med/surg.
i don't know how?

as morte said, what about those of us who went to nsg school later in life?

your premise red, assumes graduation immediately following hs/college.

this is clearly not the case anymore.

leslie

Good point, Leslie.

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No. But I believe date of graduation could easily provide a close approximation to age.

How do you figure that, when there are plenty of people now starting nursing school in their 30s, 40s, 50s? Look at all the threads just on this site on that topic ... Even when I was in nursing school in the early '80s (in my late 20s at the time), we had students ranging from fresh out of high school to >50.

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