RN- Research Nurse Coordinator- Critical Care

Job Summary

The  Division of Critical Care Medicine is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art care to children and young adults with life-threatening acute illnesses and those recovering from major surgery while ensuring patient safety.  Our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit provides care for approximately 3,000 children annually.  We collaborate with numerous pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists in order to co-manage patients with a wide variety of conditions (medical and surgical conditions in addition to traumatic injuries) from across the United States and abroad.  This includes caring for the most "routine" critical care conditions to the most sophisticated technological, cutting-edge, life-saving interventions.

The Division of Critical Care Medicine  is currently seeking a RN with a current PA license with critical care nursing experience previous work in research is a plus.

Job Responsibilities

Expected to Perform all CRC Core responsibilities (as applicable):

• Adhere to an IRB approved protocol

• Coordinate protocol related research procedures, study visits, and follow-up care

• Participate in the informed consent process of study subjects, screen, recruit and enroll patients/research participants

• Support the safety of clinical research patients/research participants

• Educate subjects and family on protocol, study intervention, study drug, etc.

• Register study on ClinicalTrial.gov

• Facilitate pre-study, site qualification,study initiation, and monitoring visits

• Facilitate study close out activities

• Coordinate research/project team meetings

• Collect, process and ship laboratory specimens

• Maintain study source documents and regulatory documents

• Report adverse events

• Comply with Institutional, federal, state, and sponsor policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and guidelines

Required Licenses, Certifications, Registrations

Required Education and Experience

Required Education: Associates Degree in Nursing
 

Required Experience: One (1) year of experience in nursing/research

Preferred Education, Experience & Cert/Lic

Preferred Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree

Preferred Licenses/certificates/registrations: ACRP or SOCRA
 

Additional Technical Requirements

Clinical Research Nurse responsibilities include but are not limited to CHOP mandatories and competencies for nurses, physical assessment, vital signs, administering investigational drugs and accessing lines for labs and pharmacokinetic sampling.