I have been an LPN for 19 years, and will graduate in June 2004 with my ADN/RN. After graduation, my husband, kids, and I will be moving to Acworth, Ga. My question is, what do you all know, and more importantly, think about Grady Hospital??
I have been offered a job there to start when we move, but my thinking is if they already offered this job, even before they find out if I have passed NCLEX, are they really that hard up? Is the work environment bad?
Please, all who know, give me some input about Grady and all others in the close area.
Living here my whole life let me tell you what I know. Grady is a community hospital that sees its share of tragedy. WellStar Kennestone is the BUSIEST ER in all of Georgia. Sign-on bonuses are a normal thing here because our shortage is crazy. I hear that WellStar does not offer the kind of money that others offer but I know that environment and benefits have alot to do with Employee Satisfaction. Please email me if you want to discuss more.
:) I am a NeuroICU nurse. I have been for 6 months now. I graduated from Nursing School in December 2003. My husband is taking a position with the Atlanta Police Department, sooooo, we are moving from Chicago next year. I am actually looking forward to moving to the Atlanta area, I am just concerned about the HUGE difference in pay. Can you please advise me of some great hospitals to work for, including the ones that are paying the big bucks, as well as the facilities that truly appreciate their nurses. Also, if you could advise me of some really nice, diverse neighborhoods to move in, preferably the suburbs and I have two kids, so schools would also be important, if you know. Thank you so much.
ChevyS RN-
Living here my whole life let me tell you what I know. Grady is a community hospital that sees its share of tragedy. WellStar Kennestone is the BUSIEST ER in all of Georgia. Sign-on bonuses are a normal thing here because our shortage is crazy. I hear that WellStar does not offer the kind of money that others offer but I know that environment and benefits have alot to do with Employee Satisfaction. Please email me if you want to discuss more.
Like I said I really don't know the pay of some of the other hospitals but you can always find out from their recruiters....Everyone is in need of good nurses..As for schools and location I would probably look for homes in the Cobb/Acworth area...Good Luck!!
I worked at grady pharmacy for a little over a year and the nurses that i spoke to didnt really like their employment there. now let me say this. grady is in the heart of atlanta, where you have low income patients who think that because they have a mediaid card that its their world, and with that, comes really bad attititudes. (no offense) but its true. nurses get disrespected so much there that they hate coming to work sometimes. i guess the pay isnt worth the bs they go through. also, some of the people you work with may be a bit on the kooky side, everyone has a bad attitude. i hated going to grady as a patient because they totally didnt understand what privacy meant, nurses, ma's or whatever they wanna call themselves would call out your ailment in front of other patients and alot of them were very rude, or ask personal questions without moving to a private area. grady gets a bad rap when it comes to attitude and wait time. but they say if youre bleeding half to death, if you go anywhere else but Grady, you will die. They supposedly have the greatest trauma unit in ga. I guess you can see for yourself. Also I hear they just implemented a new rule. RN's must wear white. Before , you caould hardly tell who was who around there...
My understanding is that if you fail the wallet biopsy when picked up for a trauma in Atlanta, you go to Grady.
what you say is true, but that being said, Grady is also one of the best trauma hospitals in the SE - Just ask the super model, Niki Taylor. She was in a car accident here several years ago and the doctors at Grady saved her life.
It is an old hospital, and they do have their share of indigent patients, but it has a good reputation for treating trauma patients.
I volunteer there and hope to work in their ER when I get out of nursing school. They probably see some of the worst traumas in North Georgia and I feel like I could learn a lot. Of course, I haven't started my nursing classes yet, so once I start clinicals I may change my mind :), but it is my goal.
12BRN, was it public knowledge that Grady was where Niki Taylor was treated and her life saved? Curious, because mentioning this is a violation of the HIPAA laws, unless it was public knowledge.
Anyhow, I have heard that Grady has one of the best trauma E.R.'s around. For wanting to work there, you will learn ALOT!!! Goodluck on whatever you choose!!!
12BRN, was it public knowledge that Grady was where Niki Taylor was treated and her life saved? Curious, because mentioning this is a violation of the HIPAA laws, unless it was public knowledge.
Anyhow, I have heard that Grady has one of the best trauma E.R.'s around. For wanting to work there, you will learn ALOT!!! Goodluck on whatever you choose!!!
Yes it was public knowledge. It was all in the news. You can verify in on http://www.cnn.com
or ajc.com and look up the story. This happened in 2001. I am not a nurse yet and do not work in the hospital. I volunteer in the maternity ward and am well aware of the HIPPA laws.
i was a pt at grady in 2002. high risk ob pt. their high risk maternity drs and staff were great. although when they induced my labor the two doctors i had been seeing were nowhere to be found. i was delievered by a student i had never met. there was a team from the nicu there of about 12. they were all wonderful. when i went to the maternity dept though it was hell. the nurses kept coming in and asking me if iwanted them to bring me my baby! she was upstairs on a vent! didn't they read my chart and then they wouldn't take me up to see her and my husband was waiting on me there! i got up and went myself. then they put the wrong name on the paper for her birth cert. after i had wrote the correct one on the paper also on her medicaid card. which was a pain in the *** seeing as how we had to run all over the place to get it fixed not knowing atlanta at all. it was so complacted. the nurses just didn't seem to care about my feelings at all. i was so upset the day before i got out i had only saw my child once before they transported her to childrens healthcare for the first open heart operation and i never got to hold her all my family was over there i was so scared and the nurse told me i needed to stop crying because she had a ton of other stuff to do aside from worrying about me!
i am now a nursing student considering changing my major to mlt but anyhow i wouldn't work there if they paid 100,000 a year i hate that place!
yes it was public knowledge. it was all in the news. you can verify in on www.cnn.com
or ajc.com and look up the story. this happened in 2001. i am not a nurse yet and do not work in the hospital. i volunteer in the maternity ward and am well aware of the hippa laws.
i am now a nursing student considering changing my major to mlt
off topic but.....if your horrible experience at grady (i'm sorry, it sounded terrible!) is a big reason for changing your major, please reconsider!! i withdrew from all of my pre-nursing courses this semester and was ready to change my major to anything but nursing after having a string of bad experiences with rn's that had less than stellar attitudes on the l&d unit i work on as a scrub tech. after sitting down and really thinking it through though, i made the decision that i can't let those experiences deter me from my chosen career.
instead, think of a nurse (or nurses) that you have really had good experiences with, people you admire career-wise, and keep them in mind--how they motivate you to work just as hard and as well as they do with patients. i also think of the *icky* rn experiences and consider myself lucky to know how not to act with patients and fellow staff members.
the thought of being the rn a patient remembers as being compassionate and knowledgable (or who a colleague remembers as competent and willing to help) is what keeps me driving ahead now. there's not enough time in our lives to let someone else's negativity get us down!
Squaw
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Living here my whole life let me tell you what I know. Grady is a community hospital that sees its share of tragedy. WellStar Kennestone is the BUSIEST ER in all of Georgia. Sign-on bonuses are a normal thing here because our shortage is crazy. I hear that WellStar does not offer the kind of money that others offer but I know that environment and benefits have alot to do with Employee Satisfaction. Please email me if you want to discuss more.