Atlanta Hospitals Hiring new RN Graduates

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Hello All,

I'm a new RN graduate and I have applied to a number of Atlanta hospitals but have not had any positive leads. I will be taking the NCLEX in July. Let me know if anyone knows of any hospitals hiring people like me. Gwinnett Medical Center's RN Residency program is already closed until next year.

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If you want to go into pediatrics check out Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. If you want to go into L&D check with Northside Hospital the Atlanta location is always hiring. It's the baby factory of Georgia!! Good luck to you!!

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Specializes in ICU.

Have you applied online or in person? I found that applying for jobs in person was the best way to get in for an interview as opposed to the online route.

I know for a fact that WellStar is hiring. If you need help getting into that system let me know since I work for them.

Best of luck!

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Thank you both, NurseBunky and Yellow Finch for the info in response to my inquiry. I will definitely try contacting the hospitals in person or via phone. I will check to see far my commute to wellstar is and give them a try. I really want to do L&D and I live just around the corner from Northside.

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Specializes in ICU.

Not to be discouraging, but I've been in communication with another nurse here about the L&D new grad program and she recently found out that they're full until next year. :(

Apply everywhere you can and good luck!

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Specializes in L&D.

Im a new grad too and I am having a hard time finding a hospital with any openings...I cant get anyone to call me back...Im afraid that I wont be able to find a job!!! Does anyone know of any other hospitals in the Atlanta area that are hiring???

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Specializes in Pediatric Intensive Care, Urgent Care.

Did u just recently graduate in April/May?? If yes, you needed to look into jobs back in Jan/Feb, especially for L&D. In fact people in my class, (May 2009) are starting to set themselves up this summer and we still have our senior year to go. This summer we all tried to get externships in the unit we were most interested in, in order to have a leg up on people when we contact recruiters in Jan/Feb to start setting up interviews for march/april. When you want to go into a popular specialty or any specialty for that matter as a new grad you need to get the wheels moving very early in your senior year. For example, this summer i'm doing an externship in the NICU at an area hospital hoping that the valuable experience will give me a leg up on the competition for the few new grad NICU slots in the area when i apply. Keep looking but you may need to settle for now just to get our foot in the door and jump on it when a slot opens up.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Mental Health.

Hello,

Yellow Finch....Which one of the wellstar hospitals do you work for? Do you know their starting salary for new grad? I was also wondering if all 5 of the hospitals have the same salary range. Anyway I am also a new grad RN and have been working for Wellstar at cobb for a number of years(not as a nurse). I know the starting salary for new grad at cobb and want to know if the starting salary is the same at Douglas or kennestone. I am still in the transition mode and have also been looking outside the system. Thank you:wink2:

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I found it was best to apply in person. Go to the HR office and ask to speak with a nurse recruiter. Almost all of the hospitals in atlanta have new grad residency programs.

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Specializes in ICU.
Hello,

Yellow Finch....Which one of the wellstar hospitals do you work for? Do you know their starting salary for new grad? I was also wondering if all 5 of the hospitals have the same salary range. Anyway I am also a new grad RN and have been working for Wellstar at cobb for a number of years(not as a nurse). I know the starting salary for new grad at cobb and want to know if the starting salary is the same at Douglas or kennestone. I am still in the transition mode and have also been looking outside the system. Thank you:wink2:

Kennestone. I'm not sure what the new grad pay is right now since we just had that cost of living increase earlier in the year. I think it's somewhere in the region of $22-23. Does that sound about right?

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Hello for all allnurses member

I am a graduate BSN-Rn and for lot of reasons I did not practice nursing since I graduate but now I am ready to practice. It is almost three months since I was looking for new grad position. I applyied at deckalb medical health center on march 11, at pedmont hospital on march, at saint joseph's on march and at emory on march. These are the hospital been told they accept new grad twice a year. Why is it so hard for new nurses to get a job and why it is only twice a year. The more you stay they will ask you to take the refresher course and if it is more than three years you have to take re-entry course. Please I dont have to stay where I dont want to work because I saw a lot of nurses have to stay where they do there clinical with out there willingness. That's not good for the nurse or the patient or organization. Any way I saw a lot of Ads about nurse shortage it might be the reason they dont accept the new grad. when I graduate we were 62 most of them find a job in washington, north carolana and florida. What about those who can not move easy like others. I would like to get a job as soon as posible I am tired of peoblems cames after all...:yeah:

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I passed my NCLEX in autumn '07 and applied to about 5 hospitals in the ATL area. I live in Florida but wanted to move up there. [in fact I got my GA license before my FL.] I had interviews at all 5 of those hospitals and not one of them made me an offer. Everything I had heard up to that point made me think I would be choosing between several job offers, hehehe.

I went ahead and got my FL license after that and was promptly hired at a local hospital in FL, along with a $5K sign-on bonus.

Now after a year's experience, I am once again trying to land a job in ATL and make the move. But I'm not holding my breath, after my first experience and also the worsening economy which has now affected even the healthcare biz. So I have a good job now -- for which I am VERY grateful -- and may just have to stay put for now.

The point is that there IS NO nursing shortage, and hasn't been for years; hospitals are staffed exactly as administration sees fit. There may SEEM to be a nursing shortage to outsiders (or even nurses) because they seem to be spread so thin. But that's not due to a shortage, but rather the planned staffing levels in place which never seem adequate.

Until the economy improves, it will only get worse. I just wonder where all these new grads will work once they are licensed. I wonder if they realize they're laying off nurses in many areas. While I wish I would have gotten into this field 10 years earlier, I'm just glad I got into it in '07 and not '09.

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