Nursing
80001 - Vasek Polak Research
Full-Time
Days
8 Hour
0700
Description
| Responsible for protocol management and to assist physicians to enroll and monitor patients placed on clinical trials as assigned. General areas of responsibility include protocol administration, patient identification, protocol eligibility confirmation, randomization/registration, data collection, quality control and study materials management. |
Core Competencies |
- Adheres to infection prevention guidelines
- Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care
- Assesses patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status
- Communicates with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care
- Complies with Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals
- Complies with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals
- Interprets common variables affecting patient care and follows reporting process
- Maintains regulatory compliance consistent with quality standards and ethical obligations of the profession
- Participates in activities in alignment with the Magnet Model
- Participates in organizational activities
- Participates in Peer Review
- Participates in professional development activities
- Performs as a preceptor in an active and engaged manner
- Provides age-specific individualized care that supports protection from harm and complies with patient safety centered interventions/bundles
- Provides patient and family education throughout the care of patient
- Uses critical thinking to formulate and carry out a care plan according to patient needs
- Utilizes resources in an economical manner
- Utilizes safe administration of medications
- Utilizes Safe Patient Handling
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Department Specific Competencies |
- Ensures research study participant protections are observed.
- Assesses physical status of research participants for entry to studies, reaction to medications and per protocols
- Screens research candidates for study eligibility per protocols.
- Screens patients referred for participation in clinical trials to determine eligibility requiring the ability to effectively communicate.
- Participates in coordination of research which impacts nursing resources within assigned area(s).
- Disseminates research findings through presentations and publications.
- Provides education to research program participants
- Assists in preparing protocols for review by Research Operations Committee (ROC), Program Board, and Institutional Review Board (IRB).
- Stages patients participating in clinical trials; explains protocols to patients; obtains informed consent, registers patients according to protocol; notifies physicians and staff of treatment prescription.
- Abstracts pertinent medical information of patients entered in clinical trials requiring the ability to access, input, retrieve and analyze computerized information.
- Educates physicians, staff and patients on treatment plans and rationales of on-going clinical trials.
- Maintains clinical records, clinical notes, and reports to the physician any changes in the patients condition.
- Utilizes chain of command to report adverse clinical or behavioral outcomes
- Collaborate with Clinical Education, Nurse Researcher, APNs and other clinical educators to embed research/best practice into staff education.
- Records pertinent patient data in a clinical record.
- Provides ongoing clinical support to patients and peers as needed
- Consistently keeps current on clinical, unit, department and medical center changes; shares information and coaches staff members about their responsibility to be well informed
- Analyzes patient lab data to assist with clinical decision making.
- Consults with nurse colleagues and other disciplines in education, research and clinical practice issues.
- Assists and supports a new or transferred employee through a planned orientation to a specific clinical area.
- Classifies ALL drugs for patients so patient can refer to written actions, side effects and clinical indications.
- Applies the nursing process as the basis for clinical judgment and decision making, nursing theory, and research.
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Education |
| Degree | Program |
| Bachelors | Nursing |
Additional Information |
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Experience |
| Number of Years Experience | Type of Experience |
| 2 | Two years recent nursing experience in ICU, PCU, or cath lab. |
Additional Information |
| N/A |
License / Certification Requirements |
| Registered Nurse License |
| BCLS or ACLS Certification |
| Cert in Clinical Research within 2 yrs of hire. |
Compensation Range: $54.74 - 84.69/hr |
