Research RN, Pediatrics Neurology

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This position works under the general supervision of a physician, advanced practice provider, and/or nursing leadership to provide nursing care in medical facility, clinic, or laboratory setting involving medical research efforts with inpatients and outpatients. Responsible for all regulatory aspects of research studies, coordination of study procedures and patient enrollment and participation in research studies. Research RN in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, will support the NCRU Pediatric Neurology team with multiple projects funded by various study sponsors, including federal and industry funded, as well as investigator-initiated projects. Participation in clinical research trials will involve oversight of assigned studies and will involve administration of investigational products for rare pediatric diseases. In addition, the Research RN will participate in patient recruitment, consenting processes, study maintenance, collection of clinical research data, medication review and adverse event management and reporting. The Research RN will be consulted for lab determinations, calculations of derived information, and maintenance of general research and complex inpatient and outpatient protocols.

Requirements

• Graduate of NLN (National League for Nursing) approved Nursing program
• 2 years of clinical nursing experience
• May substitute relevant clinical research experience for clinical nursing experience on one-on-one basis.
• (BLS) BASIC LIFE SUPPORT - Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through a course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) Upon Hire
• (RN) REGISTERED NURSE , licensure as Registered Nurse by Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas Upon Hire

Nice To Haves

• Clinical research nursing experience is highly desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

• Performs nursing care, nursing assessment, and data collection for clinical research studies.
• May provide working direction for research activities to nursing staff and/or other non-licensed medical or office support personnel.
• Assists in resolving problems relating to patient care and acts as a liaison between the research team and other institutional stakeholders.
• Gives counsel to patients with respect to medical conditions and provides appropriate guidance related to research activities, per the study protocol or under the supervision of the principal investigator.
• Assists in developing procedures for inpatient and outpatient research activities, follows protocols in the scheduling of tests and procedures; may administer experimental and non-experimental medication and procedures under physician/principal investigator guidance
• Recruits patients for research studies ensuring subject eligibility, screens patients, tracks patients' data and explains the study purpose and content of each study.
• Obtains informed consent and follows the proper consenting process for patients and/or family members.
• Monitors and evaluates patients involved in research studies within scope of practice, including their response to therapy or intervention.
• May assist in inventory of investigational medication, devices or approved medication for each protocol and acts as liaison between investigator pharmacy as each protocol requires, as per protocol requirements.
• May train other research nurses in specialized skills and knowledge necessary to perform variety of basic and complex research data collection and nursing care; may provide in-service education to staff members as appropriate.
• May assist in clinical research data collection for pharmaceutical studies, Federal studies, or investigator-initiated studies in patient records (paper and electronic), sponsors documents (electronic and paper) and other forms for data collection, such as: medical histories, data collection of patients' charts for retrospective review studies, patient physiologic performance results and laboratory determinations, calculations of derived information, and maintenance of general research protocols and complex protocols. May also report information to other physicians, institutional stakeholders and granting agencies.
• May collect, label, store and/or ship blood, serum, urine, and other specimens for analysis per the protocol requirements.
• Documents and updates the physician and sponsors on the condition of the study participants including possible side effects of therapy.
• Reports adverse events through appropriate sources per the policy of the protocol and the University Institutional Review Board (IRB) regulations.
• May assist in organizing and preparing collected data for subsequent publication as appropriate.
• May coordinate, as per the requirements of the study team, regulatory aspects for each study, which may include but is not limited to budgets, contracts, IRB submissions, maintenance of critical regulatory documents and other required committee submissions.
• May assist in internal and/or external audit requests.
• Occasionally, attends and participates in out-of-town meetings or scientific conferences as a representative of the research team.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree