loans/hospitals/peds- ATLANTA

[Calypso123]

Hi!

I'm graduating from nursing school soon, and moving to Atlanta, GA. Can anyone help me with these questions....

1. Do you know which hospitals offer Loan Repayment? Also, I noticed CHOA offers Stafford Loan Repayment- does anyone know anything about this? Is a contract required?

2. Will hospitals in Atlanta hire you as a GN, or do you have to be a RN? What do you work as until you pass your boards?

3. I'm interested in Peds. Are there alternative options to CHOA?

THANK YOU!

[NurseBunky]

Hi!

I'm graduating from nursing school soon, and moving to Atlanta, GA. Can anyone help me with these questions....

1. Do you know which hospitals offer Loan Repayment? Also, I noticed CHOA offers Stafford Loan Repayment- does anyone know anything about this? Is a contract required?

2. Will hospitals in Atlanta hire you as a GN, or do you have to be a RN? What do you work as until you pass your boards?

3. I'm interested in Peds. Are there alternative options to CHOA?

THANK YOU!

I currently work at CHOA but I don't know anything about a loan repayment. You may want to talk to a recruiter in regards to that. CHOA will hire you as a GN but you will be considered a nurse-grad tech and will be oriented as a tech until you pass NCLEX. I think you still get nursing pay as a nurse-grad tech. There are 3 hospitals in the CHOA program. Crawford Long, Northside Hospital and Atlanta Metro all have NICU. There is another pediatric hospital that I know of located in Macon,Ga.