Anyone work at GRADY MEMORIAL in Atlanta?

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Does anyone work at GRADY MEMORIAL? I am moving to Atlanta the end of next year and am hoping to get a job at Grady because I know the learning there is priceless. I have been doing research about the hospital and realize the past 10-13 years have been difficult and they are undergoing some serious changes. I was wondering what it is like to work there and if any change is noticeable yet. I will be looking for RN work in the ICU or their awesome trauma/ER with only about 1 year experience in med-surg. Any information anyone is willing to offer up would be appreciated. Thanks

They do take new grads, but only during certain times so they can collaborate the residency program. The hardest thing is getting that interview. You might have to physically go up there and talk to some of the head people to get hired in a reasonable time or else you'll probably be waiting around the phone for weeks , Grady is slow at spending money on any kind of resources nursing staff included. Don't worry about experience but they do get alot of applicants so it really comes down to your interview skills. They take foreign trained as well just make sure you get your license in the state before bothering applying. Apply for residency and extern too . Extern is 3 months of training and then they decide to keep you or not. If I were you I would actually focus more on the Extern position it is in your best interest because it is a steep learning curve working here and the extra training eases you into it. Good luck

Thank you for this info! :)

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.
Hey, no I don't , I'm still in my final year of nursing school in the UK...just enquiring ahead of time I guess.

Generally the bigger problem is getting the Visa/ permit to work in the US. While Grady has hired plenty of foreign nurses in the past, only a very limited number are getting through the legal maze these days.

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This post is so helpful... I know someone mention Grady only accepting new grad twice a year, exactly when are those two times?

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Its not exact but it's a little after regular schools graduate so May-June ish and again in dec-Jan ish. they like all new grads to go through 3 month residency program so they bring everyone on at once so they can collaborate the training and classes. call up there or go up and ask to talk to the person in charge of nurse residency or nurse Extern program. I dont want to name people on here but All these head ladies are good and helpful. They'll tell you when to call back or start looking for openings

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Hey can you please send me the HESE review pdf please? I saw in another post that you had before...my email is [email protected] thank you

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If I lived closer I'd work there in a heartbeat! LOVED it when we went through nursing clinicals there

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I think Grady is a great hospital for new nurses. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere! It's a great teaching hospital.

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Does anyone know what the pay is during the Residency program? And how much studying is required outside of work? Thanks...

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

If you don't mind me asking, Mike, why is the learning curve so steep?

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Well first off I was a new grad going into it, so I can't speak for how an experienced nurse feels about our unit. However nursing school doesn't do much but skim the surface of icu knowledge. Once you start you will realize there's alot of advanced skills and things that i felt like some of my instructors at school couldn't even fully explain. For instance how to run a CRRT machine, knowing how different modes affect the body, understanding how it affects electrolytes, fluid status, hemodynamics, and what to do in an emergency. These patients are just really sick and challenging and it was stressful sometimes I felt overwhelmed at times too during my first 4-6 months. Just so much equipment and its just like starting an iv or something is the least of your worries. Now this type of patient isnt given to you until you are ready but you might have a patient where your titrating levo, epi, dobutamine, running bicarb, vaso, insulin drip, multiple fluid bolus's, while giving 5-10 blood products in your shift, giving tons of push meds, assisting with putting in an aline, and triple lumen central on one side and introducer and floating a swan-ganz catheter on the other, setting up the cco, shooting oxycalcs, hemocalcs using a fluid warmer and warming blanket and you might have a second pt thats stable but has 2 pressors and has an evd on a vent as well. yea its work for sure not just sick people but people trying to die and you and the md's are saving them all night long. Not suprising to go through 2 crash carts on the same pt in 12 hrs but its so rewarding to all of us nurses to see our patients walk out of there after being in the worst possible shape you could ever imagine. good luck haha

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Critical-Care.

Could you please email me at [email protected]? Thanks in advance

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Critical-Care.

@Mikel3113…I desperately would like to become a part of the Grady Critical Care Team. I would like to work in any ICU, preferable SICU though. I have 2 years of Med-Surg experience but no ICU experience, which is my challenge. I'm quite sure that I won't receive a call for an interview because of my lack of experience. I know that I could win a manager over if I was only able to meet with them face-to-face. How could I meet with one of the managers? I don't want to be abrasive and just go down to Grady and fight my way past security :) Please help!

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