Job Description
Registered Nurses in this role oversee patient care within clinical trials, administering assessments and educating participants on treatments, which directly influences health outcomes by ensuring protocols lead to effective new therapies for conditions like COPD and lung cancer. Nurses recruit patients from clinics, manage data and regulatory filings, and monitor treatment effects in a structured environment.
Temple University's Lewis Katz School of Medicine supports a leading pulmonary research program with dozens of active trials, spanning COPD, lung transplantation, and cancer care. The program uses advanced technologies to test medications and devices, consistently ranking highly in enrollment and attracting international studies.
Nurses perform assessments and procedures, review trial protocols, recruit and enroll subjects, obtain consent, and schedule admissions. They serve as advocates, educating and counseling patients, monitoring care and side effects. Tasks involve IRB submissions, data management, and budget tracking, using MS Word, PowerPoint, Access, software, and regulatory documents. Nurses interact with investigators, sponsors, staff, and patients, traveling to multiple sites and being available for overtime, nights, or weekends.
The full-time day shift role offers on-site work at Health Sciences Campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, full medical, dental, vision coverage, paid time off with 11 holidays, tuition remission, and a retirement plan. Requires Registered Nurse licensure in Pennsylvania, previous research experience, proficiency in software, strong communication, organizational skills, and ability to handle biomedical regulations.
Responsibilities
- Performing nursing assessments and procedures
- Participating in the review and preparation of protocols for clinical trials
- Recruiting and enrolling study subjects, and coordinating visits
- Obtaining informed consent
- Scheduling patient admissions related to study procedures
- Serving as a patient advocate, and educating and counseling patients and families
- Ensuring that clinical trials are followed by clinical research staff
- Monitoring patient care, and assessing patient status and treatment side effects
- Maintaining regulatory documentation and managing IRB submissions and follow-ups
- Overseeing data collection and management in accordance with trial protocol
- Responsible for assisting with budget preparation and tracking expenditure
- Must be able to travel to multiple sites
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Professional licensure as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of PA, with previous research experience in a research and/or clinical trials setting
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of complex federal regulations, ethical issues, institutional policies, and other federal agency requirements governing human subjects research
- Demonstrated knowledge of quality assurance or auditing functions
- Demonstrated computer skills, and proficiency with MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access or similar software programs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including training skills
- Demonstrated organizational and time management skills, along with the ability to work under tight deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to be detail-oriented
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Must maintain a working knowledge of current regulations, guidelines, and trends influencing the conduct of human subjects research
- Ability to travel to off-site locations that may not be accessible via public transportation
- Ability to work overtime and nights/weekends/early mornings, as needed
- Experience with biomedical human research is preferred