Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) Residency – October 2024

Come and join our LVN Residency Program! We invite graduate LVN’s to apply for this unique opportunity. The next cohort will begin on October 7, 2024.

Integrated into a Hospital’s education structure, the Texas Health LVN Residency Program includes a guided clinical experience with an instructor-led core curriculum, a formal mentoring program, informative debriefing/self-care sessions and supportive 360-degree evaluations. Residents not only participate in the learning experience on their personally selected home units, but they also rotate/cross train through other departments to gain an expanded nursing experience vital to the complex patient care.

The Texas Health LVN Program is a comprehensive, evidence based on-boarding program with a 15-month employment commitment that offers new LVN’s an exciting opportunity to gain the experience, judgment, skills, and confidence to successfully navigate the complexity of hospital life.

Work location: Texas Health Fort Worth, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76104

Work environment: Renal Department

Work hours: Work hours: Full-time, (3)-12-hour shifts; Rotating weekends, Holidays, and on call shifts required.

Department highlights: 28-bed unit, three halls, two with 10 beds and one with eight. Our staffing in addition to the charge nurse are two nurses on each hall and a tech on each hall. We are technically a med-surg floor, however with a very high concentration of renal patients from acute to chronic. Many are on Hemodialysis, which is performed in another area of this floor. We perform Peritoneal Dialysis. We also are home to kidney transplant patients. Our program is still growing. We are doing about 30 per year. It is possible to get certification for med-surg, renal nurse and transplant nursing. Bonuses and expenses are paid for completion of a certification. If you find working with complex patients interesting, you will fit in very well here.

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth is an 815-bed, Magnet-designated regional referral center that has served the residents of Tarrant County and surroundings communities since 1930. Hospital services include cardiovascular care, high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, orthopedics and sports medicine, neonatal intensive care, and trauma/emergency medicine. Texas Health Fort Worth has a 75,000 square foot Emergency Services Center, one of the largest in the region and more than 4,000 employees, 200 volunteers and nearly 1,000 physicians on its medical staff. Texas Health Fort Worth received national recognition for its oncology program and was named “Best Place to Have a Baby” in Tarrant County. The hospital is also certified as a designated Comprehensive Stroke Center and a Primary Heart Attack Center PHAC by the Joint Commission. We invite you to join us in furthering your career and our accomplishments and philosophy of excellence.