About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. This role manages multiple clinical trial protocols, coordinates their execution and follow-up, and performs accurate documentation. It promotes Principal Investigator oversight by advising on deviations, patient status, and trial integrity issues.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple clinical trial protocols
- Coordinate execution and follow-up
- Perform accurate documentation
- Promote Principal Investigator oversight by advising on deviations, patient status, and trial integrity issues
- Simultaneously execute and coordinate multiple clinical trials and function independently
- Perform diverse clinical and clerical duties
- Review informed consent documents with study candidates and ensure patient advocacy and informed consent throughout the trial
- Coordinate support staff, laboratory technicians, and assistants to ensure efficient and high-quality results
- Serve as a liaison between Principal Investigators, the Institutional Review Board, and the Office of Sponsored Programs
- Prepare and review documentation for clinical research study start-up, execution, modification, renewal, and termination
- Maintain current knowledge of regulatory requirements and implement changes as needed
- Collaborate with study sponsors and assist site monitors during visits
- Work flexible hours and be available for research project-related questions
- Communicate effectively with healthcare team members, patients, investigators, sponsors, and administration
- Manage records, study medication, and test articles confidentially and securely
Requirements
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced clinical or research environment
- Interpersonal communication skills; ability to interact and maintain good relationships with a broad spectrum of healthcare disciplines and the public under all circumstances
- Detail-oriented with teamwork skills; motivated, organized, and capable of performing multiple tasks in a timely manner, and working efficiently under pressure
- Ability to simultaneously execute and coordinate multiple clinical trials and function independently; perform diverse clinical and clerical duties
- Specialized knowledge of the unique needs of patients undergoing treatment in research trials including device management trials
- Critical thinker with an analytical approach to problem-solving
- Minimum of two to five years leveraging knowledge of human life sciences/biomedical research; physiological, cellular, biochemical, or molecular biology
- Minimum two to five years understanding and leveraging standard clinical practices with regard to informed consent, biospecimen collection, and handling
