RN New Graduates Residency Program

Elevate your clinical skills and fast track your career with the RN New Graduates Residency Program at award-winning MLK Community Healthcare. Our trained preceptors and supportive clinical team will help you gain the experience, skills, judgment, and confidence needed for a rewarding career in nursing. Our mission serving the vulnerable, appreciative community of South LA will broaden your skills and expand your heart.

See information on the RN New Graduates Residency Program below. 

Specialties: Med Surg/Tele, ICU, ED, Telemetry Float Pool (Specialties may vary based on department needs.)
Application Date: November 10th, 2025
Program Start Date: January 5th, 2026

A complete application will include: 
1.    Online application
2.    Resume
3.    One-page essay (instructions on this will be on the job posting once position is open)
4.    Submit two professional letters of recommendation with application. If unable to provide two professional letters of recommendation, we will consider one professional letter of recommendation along with two personal letters of recommendation.

Requirements to Qualify for New Graduates Nurses Program:
1.    Bachelor’s degree in nursing
2.   Must have Completed RN License with the last 18 months 

New graduate nurse residencies

We currently do not have any transitional fellowship opportunities available. Check back here soon for future opportunities. You can also fill out a form below, to get notified of upcoming application periods and opportunities. 

Or, are you an experienced nurse? To learn about more career enhancing programs, visit our Fellowships page here.

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Pay and benefits

RN New Graduates residents receive competitive pay and benefits and unique wellbeing and life perks. Those perks include unsurpassed loan forgiveness and tuition reimbursement programs, no-cost medical, dental and vision options, generous paid time off and a unique employee wellbeing program designed to keep our nurses healthy in mind, body and spirit.

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Preceptors and mentors

Looking for that mentor who will help lift your skills to the next level? Our trained preceptors bring decades of experience to their job as nurses and educators.  

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Our approach

We provide a highly integrated and systematic approach to build the skills, knowledge and confidence of new graduate nurses. Using both didactic course work and clinical experience, we define a comprehensive baseline set of measurements and outcomes, evidence-based structure, processes, and content and manage adherence to those standards. Working in partnership with trained preceptors, new nurses will be able to objectively evaluate success and monitor growth over the course of the residency.
 

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Designed by nurses, for nurses

The nurses at MLK Community Healthcare take pride in being professionals who possess a personal sense of commitment and responsibility to provide care to our underserved community. As nurses, we embrace the concept that each patient and his/her family have a unique background and individual needs and that ALL patients are deserving of the highest quality care. If this is your calling, this is your hospital and healthcare system.  

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