Clinical Program Manager, Oncology Research (RN or NP Required) - Tisch Cancer Center

Responsibilities

• Provides exemplary patient care while ensuring the protocol is conducted in a high-quality manner and clinical research documentation is inspection ready.
• Coordinates study enrollment, establishes a database/case load of patients, protocol treatment and follow-up care for patients participating in clinical trials.
• Ensures protocol adherence and accurate source data.
• Implements the standards for research protocols in compliance with regulatory, institutional, and external agencies.
• Collaborates with attending physicians to identify and recruit patients eligible for clinical trial.
• Oversees scheduling of patient laboratory and radiologic assessments, admissions, and clinic visits and supports investigators with the informed consent process and documentation.
• Evaluates, treats, and/or triages untoward reactions according to the standard of care and protocol guidelines, prescribes and manages supportive care medications.
• Safeguards the primary nursing staff understands how to administer investigational agents per specifications of the protocol.
• Affirms the accuracy and timeliness of research documentation and works with ancillary departments (i.e. infusion, radiology, etc.) to ensure research is integrated into standard clinical operations.

Education

• Develops educational content and delivers nurse-to-nurse education, specifically the education of Nursing Staff regarding specific protocol requirements, treatment administration of investigational agents, coordination of timed or sequenced events (i.e. serial vitals) and the accurate capture of clinical data for the purposes of the study and patient monitoring.
• Teaches, coaches, and mentors junior staff; serves as preceptor.
• Provides routine and ongoing education to patients and families; serves as patient advocate.
• Reports unexpected and unanticipated events to institutional offices and committees (i.e. Data safety monitoring, institutional review board, etc.).
• Facilitates in/external monitoring and auditing; leads quality improvement and process improvement projects.
• Ensures compliance with core measures and national standards are continuously met and collaborates with key departments, Administrators, Nursing, Medical and Quality Leadership, and Clinical Staff, to coordinate such activities.
• Aids in the development and execution of action plans to support compliance with measures indicators and provides support and educational resources to departments and services relative to core measures, quality assessment, and improvement processes.

Qualifications

• Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing is required.
• Master’s Degree preferred; or Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner (AOCNP).
• 2 - 5 years directly related experience (some supervisory preferred).
• New York State License with current registration as a registered professional nurse.
• Certification in specialty area preferred.
• Progressive managerial and clinical job related experience specific to area of responsibilities.
• Certification in specialty area preferred.