Senior Research Nurse, Pediatrics

Location

Type, TX | United States

Job description

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued patients and employees. With over 20,000 employees, we are committed to continuing our growth with the best professionals in the healthcare industry. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth

Job Summary

The Department of Pediatrics is seeking a Sr. Research Nurse to recruit newborn patients, obtain informed consents, and monitor/evaluate patients involved in research studies. Applicant will work closely with the Pl and ensure research studies are ready to be conducted at all performance sites. Additionally, the applicant will be responsible for: directly interacting with or caring for patients, monitoring and evaluating patients involved in research studies, documenting and update PI\’s on condition of study participants including possible side effects, and assist in resolving problems related to patient care. Occasional weekend hours and patient visits at night may be necessary.

Experience and Education

• Graduate of NLN (National League for Nursing) approved Nursing program, licensure as Registered Nurse by Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas is required. Associates or advanced degree is preferred but not required.
• Four years clinical nursing experience required, out of which, one year experience in research nursing is required.
• May substitute relevant clinical research experience for clinical nursing experience on one-on-one basis.

Certification(s):

• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through a course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC) is required.

Job Duties

Nursing: 

• 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.

Patient and study management: 

• 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.
• Duties performed may include one or more of the following core functions:
  • a) Directly interacting with or caring for patients;
  • b) Directly interacting with or caring for human-subjects research participants;
  • c) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing, or similarly affecting patient records (including patient financial records);
  • or d) Regularly maintaining, modifying, releasing or similarly affecting human-subjects research records.
• 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.

Data and regulatory management:

• 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.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Work requires use of considerable judgment in application of procedures, nursing assessment techniques, practices, and policies to work problems, organization, and administration of research or outpatient clinic.
• Work requires frequent contact with physicians, residents, fellows, allied health personnel, affiliated institutions, and other medical and/or non-medical office support personnel to facilitate patient care and research data collection.
• Work requires the determination of methods or approaches to work problems.

Working Conditions

• Work is performed primarily in clinical environment.
• The incumbent may be exposed to body fluids and infectious diseases.

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