Research Nurse - Cancer Studies

1. Job responsibilities include those listed in competency document.
2. Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers in accordance with our Service Excellence Standards and Core Values
3. The Research Nurse will be responsible to perform care and execute clinical care to subjects participating in clinical trials when needed by the research team within the comprehensive Cancer program.
4. Screens potential patients for protocol eligibility and enrolls patients according to specific protocol requirements.
5. Maintains high quality data collection through patient (client) observation, review of history and physical examination and analysis of diagnostic data, and patient assessment during treatment.
6. Reviews and interprets new protocol requirements for feasibility as well as lab tests, scans, and other diagnostic data.
7. Implements correct procedures for patient’s registration to research protocols. Responsible for reviewing inclusion and exclusion criteria for the PI and for the Informed Consent Process per the policy.
8. Ensures protocol compliance in areas of physician orders, testing, and follow-up visits.
9. Safely and effectively records study medications. Manage research drugs using DARF, drug inventories, and accurate destruction records.
10. Remains up-to-date on current protocols, updates, and new protocols.
11. Spreadsheets on the MRMC J-Drive are maintained accurately, timely, and complete.
12. Maintains accurate, timely, and complete patient records (including toxicities, treatments, dose modifications, patient response, etc.)
13. Responsible for gathering necessary information from the research participants and submitting data as specified by protocol to research base along with transcribing data onto the Case Report Form (CRF).
14. Reports and documents Serious Adverse Events (SAE) per protocol guidelines.
15. Collaboration in a positive and professional manner with a multidisciplinary team within the comprehensive cancer program is required to ensure all research related tasks are completed in an efficient manner. The multidisciplinary team may consist of Physicians, Nurses, Administrative assistance, outside parties, and other necessary supportive team members.