I work in a place which surely can be defined as a cultural object of the state of New York, Bellevue Hospital, the first public hospital in the US. It is located on First Avenue between 27th & 28th Street in Manhattan. Although, most people recognize Bellevue by its psychiatric service and/or because it is the one that serves the Ebola patients; the hospital offers an ample variety of medical specialties; it is a level one trauma center, a teaching hospital and a prison. Different factors calls my attention from this hospital, I would say Bellevue is the image of the New York city’s life in a variety of aspects, because in this environment one gets to be aware of the reality of this city, not just what the media offers.
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There are institutions like schools and hospitals that for one reason or the other have a predominant race on the employees; but there is no segregation, or it is very difficult to find a predominant race in the personnel at Bellevue. This enriches the service because most of the employees speak at least two languages. Another aspect I have observed is that at the work place the status of the occupation overrides the gender or the race statuses. I mean two nurses one Russian and one from the Philippine will share more than a nurse - doctor/ a technician – clerk / volunteer- security guard from the same race or origin. I am not saying the status set you apart, because there is a general cooperation and affability amongst the workers, but the ones that have the same occupation intimate …show more content…
On this last case (since the person is not sick and of course, can’t stay in the hospital) the social work service is called. They interview the patient and direct them to a shelter, I have to make clear that the recommendation of the social worker does not assure that the patient is going to be accepted in the shelter, because these centers have their own requirements. When they are not accepted, or voluntarily leave the shelter because of the violent environment, and the difficulties of the place (the location is just offered to sleep, in the morning they have to leave and return at a specific night time) they return to the hospital and are addressed to social services department again. I assume the situation most be frustrating to the social worker and the
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There are institutions like schools and hospitals that for one reason or the other have a predominant race on the employees; but there is no segregation, or it is very difficult to find a predominant race in the personnel at Bellevue. This enriches the service because most of the employees speak at least two languages. Another aspect I have observed is that at the work place the status of the occupation overrides the gender or the race statuses. I mean two nurses one Russian and one from the Philippine will share more than a nurse - doctor/ a technician – clerk / volunteer- security guard from the same race or origin. I am not saying the status set you apart, because there is a general cooperation and affability amongst the workers, but the ones that have the same occupation intimate …show more content…
On this last case (since the person is not sick and of course, can’t stay in the hospital) the social work service is called. They interview the patient and direct them to a shelter, I have to make clear that the recommendation of the social worker does not assure that the patient is going to be accepted in the shelter, because these centers have their own requirements. When they are not accepted, or voluntarily leave the shelter because of the violent environment, and the difficulties of the place (the location is just offered to sleep, in the morning they have to leave and return at a specific night time) they return to the hospital and are addressed to social services department again. I assume the situation most be frustrating to the social worker and the