New Grad RN (Med-Surg) - Loan Forgiveness - Full Time, Days (East Los Angeles) - 11157

Los Angeles Community Hospitals is looking for a New Grad Registered Nurse to join its med-surg team in East Los Angeles. This full-time, onsite role supports a specific group of patients, coordinating care with physicians, other nurses and support staff to plan, implement and adjust the care plan as the patient’s needs evolve. The posting highlights a loan forgiveness option as part of the opportunity, which could be a meaningful incentive for new graduates. Job Listing ID: 1870791.

The employer operates as a network of hospitals and affiliated medical groups dedicated to delivering coordinated, personalized care across their services. In this environment, you’ll work with a team that values accountability, teamwork and high safety standards, while helping patients and families navigate the journey of care from admission through discharge.

In this role you’ll plug into professional nursing practice on a daily basis, handling patient care, medications and treatments in a safe, age-appropriate and evidence-based way. You’ll monitor patients for changes, document responses to therapy, and re-evaluate the plan of care, collaborating with the broader healthcare team to intervene when needed and to arrange referrals or discharges as appropriate.

Making the day-to-day count in med-surg

The daily routine centers on delivering hands-on patient care, administering medications and procedures within your scope, and making sure the care plan aligns with treatment standards. You’ll stay alert to shifts in a patient’s condition, act to address issues, and communicate clearly with the team to ensure timely and accurate updates to the care plan and charting, while keeping infection control and HIPAA compliance in mind. You’ll also help educate patients and families and participate in discharge planning to support smooth transitions out of the hospital.

Collaboration sits at the heart of this role: you’ll coordinate with doctors, nurses and other care staff to ensure that care is safe, effective and well supported by resources. You’ll supervise and delegate appropriately, share information and teaching resources, and help create and execute teaching plans that prepare patients for discharge and ongoing home care needs.

What you’ll bring and what would be nice to have

• Must-have: a current, active California RN license in good standing
• Must-have: graduation from an accredited nursing program
• Must-have: American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification
• Must-have: ability to read, write and communicate effectively in English
• Must-have: capacity to work variable shifts, including evenings, nights, weekends and holidays
• Must-have: ability to stay flexible and composed in a changing environment
• Must-have: Hospital Fire and Life Safety Card (Los Angeles City Employees only)

• Nice-to-have: a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Nice-to-have: bilingual skills to communicate with patients and families

Pay, benefits and the practical side

The posting lists a yearly salary of $96,000, reflecting the full-time, day-shift role in this location. It also notes an hourly pay rate of $48.00, described as an average rate including overtime for a 12-hour period and not the base rate. This nuance is important for understanding how compensation is presented in the listing. Location for this position is East Los Angeles, with on-site work required, and there’s no travel mentioned. The role emphasizes hospital-wide standards of safety and professional conduct as part of the core organizational values, and the job’s physical demands include standing and walking for long periods, frequent movement and lifting, and the ability to respond to patient needs across a typical hospital environment.

Key physical demands include standing and walking most of the time, frequent use of hands and arms, occasional climbing or balancing, and the need to handle lifting and transferring tasks with varying weights up to 50 pounds regularly. You’ll be expected to communicate effectively and respond to the needs of patients and families with empathy, while maintaining a professional presence at all times.

Tips to help you stand out for this role

Show your new-grad credentials clearly on your resume by listing your CA nursing license, the nursing program you completed, and your BLS certification front and center, since the posting prioritises those items as must-haves. If you earned a BSN, put it up top to signal a nice-to-have that could set you apart in this med-surg setting.

In your application or within the interview, bring concrete examples that prove you can work variable shifts and stay adaptable in a busy hospital environment. Use short stories that demonstrate how you’ve supported a care plan, collaborated with a care team, and handled patient education or discharge planning with sensitivity.

Expect questions about recognizing clinical changes in patients, documentation practices, and how you would advocate for patients when resources are limited. Prepare a brief scenario that shows how you would develop and communicate a plan of care, including pain management and safety considerations, and be ready to discuss HIPAA and infection control processes as they apply to the unit.

With the loan forgiveness angle mentioned in the listing, you can close by asking a targeted question about how the program works for new grads, what milestones are involved, and how the hospital supports continued training and career growth for someone starting out in med-surg.