Nurse (Clinical Research)

Duties

• Serve a leader in an area of clinical practice and direct the delivery of nursing care to a specific population of patients.
• Expertly utilize the nursing process and advanced nursing skills to assess, plan, perform and evaluate patient care for specific cohorts of patients participating in biomedical research.
• Develop plans to address patient’s comprehensive needs including education, safety, comfort and spirituality.
• Coordinate and initiate internal and external referral and the multidisciplinary care of research patients.
• Plan and evaluate care including establishing policies, guidelines and priorities.
• In collaboration with supervisor, research and resolve uncommon situations in patient care that require creativity and innovation.
• Investigate the etiology of discrepancies or unusual sentinel events and provides feedback and recommendations for resolution/problem prevention.
• Assess complex and sensitive health education needs in individual patient populations with like conditions, protocols or other characteristics.