Clinical Nurse

Requirements

• Adheres to applicable federal, state, and institutional regulations, policies, and procedures related to clinical research.
• Participates in providing timely, informative, and accurate communication with the interdisciplinary team to ensure protocol compliance and timeliness of protocol-related procedures.
• Collaborates with the PI, pharmacy, and other appropriate personnel to ensure proper use of and accountability for study drugs.
• Identifies and intervenes to address barriers to effective informed consent discussions and decision making (e.g., literacy, capacity, language, distress, lack of time, therapeutic misconception).
• Provides complete patient assessment, including vital signs and pre-examination procedures.
• Gathers and assesses objective and subjective data from the patient.
• Documents data and assessments accurately in the patient record.
• Coordinates patient care, acting as a liaison with other departments and organizations.
• Provides patient education before and after procedures, use of medical devices and equipment, and prescriptions.
• Triage of calls for urgent appointments, referrals for patient consults and resting, insurance precertification, and documentation.
• Ensures timely completion of protocol-required events and other requirements (e.g. pharmacokinetics or-dynamics, scans, study visits, QOL.).
• Evaluates patient's adherence to and documentation of self-administered protocol agents and the return of such agents.
• Collaborates with the investigator to determine disease response as defined by the protocol and communicates findings to the study team and other care providers.
• Ensures appropriate communication between clinical and research staff related to patient-specific care needs.
• Ensures evidence-based symptom management as permitted by the protocol.
• Patient health counseling and instruction, including meeting with families and caregivers.
• Medication reconciliation, management, patient compliance, inventory, education.
• Ensures regulatory compliance with OSHA guidelines, CLIA regulations, HIPAA medical privacy guidelines.
• Documents all patient encounters in the legal medical record per licensure and institutional requirements.
• Obtains documents from outside providers or laboratories that are needed.
• Assesses documentation or discrepancies and ensures that inaccurate or discrepant documentation is addressed in the medical record or other source documents.
• Maintains the privacy and confidentiality of patient's source documents.

Benefits

• Health and welfare and/or other benefits