Senior Research Registered Nurse, Cancer Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

14h

About The Position

Works under moderate supervision of physician and/or nurse to provide advanced nursing care in medical facility, clinic, or laboratory setting involving medical research efforts with inpatients and outpatients. Responsible for advanced research nursing care and/or assigned clinic area.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree or advanced degree
• Graduate of NLN (National League for Nursing) approved Nursing program
• 4 years of clinical nursing required, out of which,
• 1 year of experience in research nursing
• May substitute relevant clinical research experience for clinical nursing experience on one-on-one basis
• Graduate of NLN (National League for Nursing) approved Nursing program, licensure as Registered Nurse by Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas Upon Hire and
• (BLS) BASIC LIFE SUPPORT certification through a course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) Upon Hire

Responsibilities

• Performs advanced nursing care, nursing assessment, and data collection for clinical research studies.
• Provides 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.
• Develops, implements and/or standardizes 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
• Acts as a study-designated liaison in resolving problems relating to patient care and acts as a patient advocate.
• Recruits patients for multiple and/or complex 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, per the protocol and IRB regulations
• Monitors and evaluates patients involved in research studies within scope of practice, including their response to therapy or intervention.
• May maintain or oversee inventory of investigational drugs, devices or approved medication for each protocol and acts as liaison between investigator and IDS pharmacy as each protocol requires, as per protocol requirements.
• Trains 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 coordinate 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 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 condition of the study participants including possible side effects of therapy.
• May act as a study team liaison and provide direction in resolving queries from study sponsors or regulatory authorities.
• 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 respond to internal and/or external audit requests as a subject matter expert for assigned studies.
• Occasionally, attends and participates in out-of-town meetings or scientific conferences as a representative of the research team, and attends and participates in meetings relating to clinic activities.
• 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees