What are the responsibilities and job description for the GN Residency July - Palliative Care position at Texas Health Fort Worth?
Graduate Nurse Residency – Palliative Care – July 2025
Integrated into a Hospital’s education structure, the Texas Health Graduate Nurse 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 Nurse Residency Program is a comprehensive, evidence based on-boarding program with a 15-month employment commitment that offers new graduate nurses an exciting opportunity to gain the experience, judgment, skills and confidence to successfully navigate the complexity of hospital life.
Department Highlights :
Supportive & Palliative Care is a 16-bed med-surg telemetry unit that provides comprehensive, supportive care by an interdisciplinary team for patients with life-limiting or life-threatening illness. The overarching goal of palliative care alters the focus of care to alleviate suffering and promote an increased quality of life. This provides the fundamental clinical goal of the Supportive & Palliative Care Unit, which is to relieve suffering and improve quality of life for patients with advanced illness and their families, regardless of the stage of the disease or the need for other therapies. Therapy goals include curative, restorative, life prolonging, and comfort measures. Additionally, the Supportive and Palliative Care unit provides specialized care for the cystic fibrosis population. The Supportive & Palliative Care unit ensures excellent standard of care through participation in nationally achieved and recognized certifications for both palliative and cystic fibrosis.
