Job Description

The Research Nurse Coordinator II is responsible for all activities associated with clinical study coordination, subject recruitment/enrollment, data management/integrity, regulatory compliance, project/study evaluation and interfacing with participants and family members. Coordinates the clinical logistics of the study, and works in tandem with the Research and/or Clinical Nurse who work to provide hands-on clinical care to research participants. Utilizes clinical nursing background and extensive research protocol knowledge to serve as a liaison between nursing staff, Principal Investigator, other research staff, and study participants. Assists with the education of staff, and provides general oversight of research portfolio as it pertains to the clinical coordination of the studies.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for clinical study activities, coordination, adherence to protocols and serves as a liaison between study participants, Principal Investigator (PI), and other research staff.
• Provides educational services to research participants and family regarding study participation, participants current clinical condition, and or disease process.
• Assesses and documents adverse events as reported by research participants, works closely with PI to document according to department process (grade, attribution, treatment, etc.), and reports to regulatory and sponsor as required.
• Records research data where assessed or reported by patient (i.e. symptoms of treatment).
• Creates and presents education materials to the interdisciplinary team on study requirements.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to create and communicate a plan of care that allows for safe and effective collection of clinical research data.
• Triages patient by phone and provides clinical information to the patient.
• Completes and documents study participant enrollment, assessment/reassessment, education, and follow-up activities and ensures protocol is followed.
• Coordinates study participant tests and procedures as required.
• Prepares data spreadsheets for Investigator and/or department.
• Performs oversight of research portfolio as it pertains to the clinical coordination of the studies.
• Assists with the education of staff.
• May assist with grant proposals, publication preparation, and presentations.
• May process, ship, track or otherwise handle research specimens.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Associate Degree/College Diploma required. Bachelors Degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of clinical nursing experience, demonstrating strong clinical judgment, patient care skills, and the ability to work independently within a fast-paced healthcare environment.
• At least 2 years of clinical research experience, supporting protocol execution, patient enrollment, documentation, and regulatory compliance.
• Candidates must hold a current, valid California Registered Nurse (RN) license in good standing

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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