Guthrie·Sayre, Pennsylvania
Coordinate multiple in-patient and out-patient clinical research protocols while ensuring compliance with sponsor requirements and Good Clinical Practice standards. Collaborate with investigators and medical departments to manage patient visits, treatment planning, and the administration of investigational medications.
RN - Clinical Research Float - FT
Shift: Monday-Friday, 8:00a-5:00p (with some flexibility)
Primary location: Sayre, PA, Additional locations Corning, NY and Binghamton, NY
On Call: Every 9th-10th week, may include weekend
Up To $25,000 Sign On Bonus For Qualified RNs!
Coordinate multiple in-patient and out-patient clinical research protocols. This coordination requires extensive knowledge for the disease pathophysiology, pharmacology treatments, patient disease evaluation workflow, and the ability to collaborate and communicate new processes related to research with the involved departments.
1. Five years clinical experience in a healthcare setting, or 2. Bachelor of Science degree with 3 years full time nursing experience or 3. Certification as a Clinical Research professional
Desire certification in the disease specialty being studied or as a Clinical Research Professional. Three years full time experience in the nursing field required. Experience successfully leading or advancing a project with peers, leadership, and/or external customers.
Coordinate individual clinical research projects in multiple disease conditions.
Project coordination requires meeting sponsor specific training requirements prior to initiation, assuring team members have met sponsor training, training team members to delegated duties, supporting regulatory specialist with sponsor communications, maintaining study supply inventory, and supporting monitors during visits. Each project requires institutional process development strategies. This research team member develops or advances the investigators plans.
Collaborate with the manager and executive director for the development of department research programs. This is demonstrated through advancing research meetings in the Guthrie Medical Group departments. These meetings communicate the performance metrics regarding enrollments, training requirements and new protocol opportunities.
Additional responsibilities for specific program development include assisting with feasibility, site selection, IRB document review, and corresponding with investigators, IRB, and sponsors.
This role coordinates the study protocol procedure events and treatment planning with the investigator.
This coordination for the patient includes reviewing medical history for eligibility, educating the patient to the study requirements, registering the participant to the project, and organizing patient visits.
Patient visits requirements involve scheduling, reviewing treatment plans, assuring study treatment and supplies are available and documenting the encounter.
This documentation must meet Good Clinical Practice standards of attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, accurate, and complete.
Lastly follow-up with the participant related to next visit and study requirements.
Administering and dispensing investigational medication ordered for that patient by a licensed physician in the dosage prescribed by protocol.
Retrieval of medication and assessment of compliance by patient to the protocol.
Routine travel between Guthrie research sites may be required, as well as periodic travel for protocol training.
Collaborate with director, manager, research team members and IRB coordinator in developing and revising process flow for research procedures.
Attend training seminars and conferences as required by sponsor of research study.
Make presentations of study information to groups of physicians and patients. Assist physicians in protocol development.
Advise department manager on resource utilization and training needs.
Perform other duties as assigned by the director or manager.
The pay range for this position is $40.00 - $54.12 per hour.
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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.
The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
Requires a current Registered Nurse license in Pennsylvania and New York, along with at least three years of full-time nursing experience. Candidates must also meet specific criteria regarding clinical experience, educational background, or professional research certification.
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