Clinical Research Nurse

University Cancer & Blood Center•Athens, GA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

At University Cancer & Blood Center, we pride ourselves on listening. On providing hope, guidance, and comfort. On getting up each day and striving to make a positive impact on the lives of patients and their families. From our front-desk staff to our counselors, nurses, technicians and physicians – who’ve chosen to accept their calling, we salute them for their efforts and recognize them as the very special individuals that they are. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO JOIN US? IF SO WE’D LOVE TO HAVE YOU!

Requirements

Must have active Ga RN License
3 years RN experience

Responsibilities

Ensure that clinical trial list is printed and passed around.
See trial patients for the day, including ensuring appointment times are monitored, starting trial visit notes in EMR, administering QoL's, accessing ports and collecting labs, assessing for dose modifications or delays based on AEs, updating the Investigator on patient visits and AEs, assessing lab results and grading abnormalities, confirming treatment doses and orders, informing infusion nurses of treatment approval, entering visits in IXRS, dispensing drugs (double-checking drug kit/vial number and expiration with another staff member, charting drug dispensation, taking study drug to mix), finishing charting, and checking patient's return visit orders for correct dates/times.
Prescreen all new patients for the following day, marking oncology patients as eligible or prescreened and adding trial info, and entering applicable information in Oncotrials.
Check through all patients currently in screening/eligibility and screening procedures, assessing scan or lab results, ensuring patients are on track for start date, completing med history & conmeds in Oncoemr, submitting enrollment packets, and ensuring PI eligibility confirmation is entered and randomizing if applicable.
Check for drug shipments, comparing drug to packing slip, storing drug appropriately, recording on drug logs, receiving shipment in IXRS if applicable, and rechecking for drug shipments before leaving at EOB.
Process and ship lab kits if applicable.
Complete trial patient schedule for the next day by checking visit schedules, ensuring treatments/labs/procedures are ordered per protocol, checking and updating each section of the patient visit list, ensuring everything on the trial list is entered in the EMR, entering return orders and procedure letters in EMR, and emailing the completed trial patient list by EOB.
Prepare for next day patient visits by ensuring adequate drug supply, checking for lab kits, preparing QoLs, and calling patients to remind them of fasting or withholding morning drug doses if applicable.
Answer phone calls from patients and physicians throughout the day.
Check emails and ensure timely responses throughout the day.
Review emails for Query Resolution requests and update as necessary.
Scan through "all locations" visit list for the next day, checking "potential trials" buttons for applicability and updating Oncotrials, and checking through new scan results/path reports.
Call patients with recent new starts or recent dose mods to ensure tolerance and compliance when possible, attempting to follow up within 24-48 hours, but no more than 7 days.