Clinical Research Nurse Jobs

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Discover what comes next for your nursing career when you join a collaborative team whose clarity, compassion, curiosity and courage are advancing medicine and setting new standards for exceptional care.

BENEFITS STATEMENT:

Beaumont offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and life-work balance goals.

• Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products and services
• Generous retirement savings, disability insurance, identify theft protection and even home and auto insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance plans
• Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
• Free onsite employee parking
• On-demand pay program – powered by Payactiv

Our Clinical Trials Offices at Beaumont Health offer personalized service to those seeking care through clinical trials. The research our patients participate in today lead to tomorrow's medical treatments and disease prevention strategies, which advance evidence-based health care. In coordination with Beaumont doctors, our knowledgeable staff is committed to meeting the highest standard of excellence in conducting clinical research and supporting quality patient care.

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Clinical Research Nurse is responsible for protocol coordination, including research participant recruitment, enrollment, implementation and follow-up of research procedures. The Clinical Research Nurse promotes good clinical practices in the conduct of clinical investigations by possessing knowledge of federal regulations and guidance documents for the conduct of clinical trials and human subject protection. The Regulatory Clinical Research Nurse provides regulatory support and guidelines based on Federal Guidelines. Assures compliance with Regulatory guidelines and Beaumont policies (FDA, NIH and HIPAA)

STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

A. Education / Training:

• BSN required

• If applicable, department specific clinical certification and/or experience may be required

• Current phlebotomy skills highly preferred

B. Work Experience:

• Prior medical/surgical clinical experience required

C. Certification, Licensure, Registration:

• MI Registered Nurse license.

• National research certification (SoCRA or ACRP) within three to five years of hire date required. National IRB Professional certification (CIP) is required for the Regulatory Clinical Research Nurse within three to five years of hire date.

• BLS Healthcare Provider Certification required

D. Other Qualifications:

• MS Word, Excel, Epic, Outlook

• Excellent verbal and written skills and organizational skills required

• Must be able to work autonomously

• Knowledge of FDA Regulations and Good Clinical Practices

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

1. Participate in subject screening, recruitment, consenting, enrollment, monitoring of treatment, and follow-up procedures.

2. Distribute study article, including drug.

3. Maintain study article accountability.

4. Document all study-related procedures/events and documents, including case report forms or electronic data capture systems.

5. Participate in monitoring audits/visits and handle data queries.

6. Prepare for and participate in audits by sponsors and external regulators.

7. Prepare and/or review complex regulatory documents such as IRB applications, Informed Consent and Authorization documents, complex Amendments, Progress Reports, Adverse Event/Unanticipated Problem Reports, and Protocol Deviations.

8. Communicate effectively with the IRB, research participants, research team, principal investigators, sponsors, primary care providers, and ancillary staff to educate on protocol requirements, and to ensure protocol adherence, participant safety, and Regulatory compliance.

9. Participate in pre-study preparation, including budget development, regulatory document preparation and problem solving.

10. Monitor enrollment goals.

11. Practice BH hospitality standards.

12. Ensure and participate in appropriate collection, processing and shipping of research specimens.

13. Implement quality controls and assurance measures and maintain professional and technical knowledge.

14. Protect research participant confidentiality.

15. Research participant/family interaction, utilize effective communication skills, incorporate specific age, cultural, or development needs.

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

STANDARD REQUIREMENTS:

1. Supports the Mission, Value and Vision of Beaumont Health (BH). Demonstrates personal commitment through active involvement in the performance improvement process.

2. Exhibits excellent customer service skills and behaviors toward internal and external customers and co-workers. Promotes positive public relations with patients/residents, family members, guests, and others.

3. Supports and adheres to all Beaumont Health’s customer service, service excellence, and performance standards. Supports and participates with all required compliance standards that may be department specific and/or identified by the organizations including in-service training, acceptable attendance, uniform and dress code.

4. Adheres to HIPAA requirements and maintains confidentiality of all data, including patient/resident, employee and operations information.

5. Supports and participates in a collaborative team oriented environment – cooperates and works together with all co-workers, plans and completes job duties, uses appropriate communications in sensitive and emotional situations and follows up as appropriate regarding reported complaints, problems and concerns.

6. Supports, cooperates with and demonstrates safe work practices and attitudes, follows safety rules – including universal precautions - reports and prevents/corrects unsafe conditions and behaviors, and participates in organizational and departmental safety programs.

7. Completes all required compliance standards that may be department specific and/or identified by the organization.

8. Maintains current licensure, registration and/or certification, as applicable, at all times.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

A. Physical Effort:

• Strength

Position requires ability to frequently push/pull up to 30 lb. objects with assist of others, occasional requires ability to lift objects more than 50 lbs. with others, constantly lift objects up to 20 lbs. And frequently lift up to 40 lbs.

• Manual Dexterity

Position requires incumbent to constantly perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative skills such as writing. Position requires incumbent to frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as positioning patients.

• Coordination

Position requires incumbent to constantly perform gross body coordination such as walking. Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to eat, collections of specimens for transport to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such as taking patients temps and pulses.

• Mobility

Positions requires incumbent to constantly walk and stand; occasionally sit for prolonged periods, frequently bend such as when caring for a patient in bed.

• Visual Discrimination

Positions requires incumbent to constantly see objects far away as in driving and see close objects such as reading thermometers.

• Hearing

Positions requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering phone/intercom. Frequently be able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.

B. Work Environment:

• Employee may be frequently exposed to electro-magnetic radiations as in VDTs. Occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxions, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous substances. Infrequently exposed to blood, body tissue, or fluids. Seldom exposed to fluctuations in temperature, grease, oil, and radiation.

ABOUT BEAUMONT

Beaumont offers you a world of opportunity throughout Southeast Michigan. With eight hospitals and 155 outpatient sites you’ll have a wide variety of practice settings to choose from. Beaumont has more nationally ranked hospitals in Michigan than any other health system.