CHOA Atlanta

ebear, BSN, RN · Sep 24, 2007

Try Henrietta Eggleston Children's Hospital (part of Emory Univ. School of medicine). I understand that their hospital is absolutely to notch!!

I KNOW you will find something of interest there. It is a HUGE outfit. Good luck!

wooh, BSN, RN · Sep 24, 2007

Egleston is part of CHOA. As is Scottish Rite. As is Hughes Spalding. Basically if you want to do peds in Atlanta, you do it for CHOA.

When are you looking at getting hired for? It may be that they just aren't looking at hiring that far away. With the busy season coming up, it's hard to tell understaffed floors, "Just wait, we've got someone coming off orientation in 6 months."

ebear, BSN, RN · Sep 24, 2007

Maria22,

Oops! I just noticed that Eggleston is now part of CHOA. Was not always the case. Try going to http://www.pediatrics.emory.edu/affiliates.html

There are several affiliates listed. Could be that you can get your foot in the door there first. There are also many, many hospitals in Atlanta. You may want to figure out what area you will be living in first, as you DO NOT want to get tied up in a nightmare of traffic trying to get to work! The traffic can be horrendous!

ebear

ECMOismygame · Dec 13, 2007

sorry to hijack but i have a similar inquiry

i posted this over at the PICU forum

im looking at doing my RT internship at CHOA-Egleston next summer and i'd like to get a better feel for the city and the hospital, especially the PICUs.
Egleston was recommended to me by a professor who worked there and went to RT school at Georgia State. He said the work environment and relationship between the nurses and RTs were unlike anywhere he had been before.
so, any comments or thoughts on the PICUs at CHOA? anyone currently working at CHOA, preferably Egleston? comments on other areas of the hospitals would great as well.

thanks