Clinical Research Nurse

San Antonio, TX

About the role

The Clinical Research Nurse/Registered Nurse II will oversee the Nursing Department service areas including Trauma, Critical Care, Oncology, Neuroscience, Behavioral Health, Pediatrics, Medical Surgical Specialties, Perioperative Nursing, Interventional Radiology, Diabetes care, Inpatient care services, and outpatient clinics.

Responsibilities

• Manages all areas of clinical studies, including protocol development, regulatory submissions, and data management, specifically preparing protocol submissions, informed consent forms, annual reports, and study amendments for appropriate IRBs of record.
• Provides documentation submissions in accordance with federal and local regulations.
• Manages patients on clinical studies/trials per research protocol, collects and reports adverse events, participates in weekly team meetings, and works with the study team to open new clinical studies/trials.
• Educates staff and patients on assigned study protocols/clinical trials.
• Maintains all clinical research documentation to support ongoing and future studies in support of the principal investigator and the project staff.
• Responsible for patient evaluations, communications to pharmaceutical sponsors regarding the status of enrolled patients, and study data collection results to the investigator as applicable (critical lab results, etc.).
• Instructs and counsels patients in research procedures, including administration, monitoring, recording, and analyzing data.
• Provides general supervision related to the conduct of all research protocols and reports back to the Principal Investigator(s).
• Ensures compliance with all federal and local regulations.
• Supports government executive director(s) in the planning, evaluation, implementation, and documentation of scientific research utilizing specimens for clinical projects.
• Coordinates clinical experiment scheduling and collection of data; works with clinical research coordinators; recruits and enrolls clinical study participants; provides ethical oversight in support of the clinical study.
• May be required to collect study samples from patients to support the clinical research effort.
• Documents results of study participants in accordance with protocols; schedules and coordinates research resources; gathers, compiles, organizes, analyzes, and reports research information and study results.
• Sets up and assigns protocol procedures and preclinical (bench or animal) experiments; monitors budget plans and management.
• Researches and prepares equipment and supplies in accordance with institutional procedures.
• May require occasional weekend and evening hours.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Nursing (ADN).
• Active and unencumbered Registered Nursing (RN) License issued by the state of Texas.
• Minimum five (5) years of clinical/acute care experience.
• Minimum three (3) years of clinical research experience and research design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (CCRC).

Skills

• Experience in a research and clinical setting.
• Experience in either the military, federal, private, or public sector performing tasks such as:
  • Providing comprehensive nursing care to patients.
  • Administering oxygen, IV fluid, blood transfusions, and prescribed oral, subcutaneous, and intramuscular medications.
  • Managing nasal-pharyngeal and gastric suction as well as a variety of other drainage tubes.
  • Preparing patients for surgical and/or diagnostic procedures.
  • Setting up, operating, and monitoring specialized equipment such as cardiac monitors, respirators, defibrillators, etc.
  • Providing care in a variety of clinical settings, such as Inpatient Patient Care Units (e.g., oncology, pediatric, neurology, behavioral health), ICU, Operating Room, PACU, Donor Services, Infusion Centers, and Ambulatory Clinics.
• Ability to complete CITI training and remain current.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• May use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.