Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) (Part time REMOTE)

Position Overview

We are seeking a licensed practical nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) with current California State licensure to perform sample collection, including collection of throat and nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs, from healthy volunteers participating in the Associate Sample Collection Program (ASCP).

Key Responsibilities

• Perform nasopharyngeal and throat swab specimen collection at mutually agreed upon times (usually 5-6 hours duration) on an as needed basis (typically 3 days/week).
• Prepare Sample-collection Kits for self-collected samples by sample donors – instructions will be provided.
• Help send recruitment/scheduling emails to the potential/consented study participants to recruit them or schedule weekly collection activities.
• Pickup and Dropoff the new and used kits from designated spots in 5 building locations within 1-2 miles distance.
• After picking up the used kits with self-collected samples in them along with the collection log, able to reconcile them.
• Reconciling samples involves reading the one-page collection logs and cross-checking them for consenting status, proper documentation by subjects, etc.
• Add some notes on these collection logs, based on their findings and put them in order to provide them to the site-coordinator.
• Help communicate with the subjects about any errors in documentation for correction, and/or missing consent and follow through with actions, as trained.
• Separete the samples from this identifying document i.e. collection log (de-identifying) and put them together and either provide these samples to the teams, or store them in refrigerator or freezer, as directed.
• Provide support inputting the data from the collection activities into the ASCP electronic database and secure servers.
• Help track and file all the relevant documents for records in the site’s study binders and electronic files.
• Help with site-level activities to run the program as a backup, as assigned and needed.

Qualifications

• LPN certificate or degree qualification plus a minimum of one year of practical nursing experience.
• Phlebotomy experience considered a plus.