Job Description
Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai! At Cedars-Sinai, we take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees. Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff reflect the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.
What will you be doing in this role?
The Research Nurse II provides hands-on treatment, monitoring and follow-up clinical analysis of patients participating in clinical trials. Ensures adherence to federal and regulatory requirements in delivering direct patient nursing care within the context of supporting clinical trial study implementation. Works collaboratively with the Principal Investigator, physicians and other research staff in providing hands-on care in triaging, documenting vitals, administering investigational drugs or interventions, and providing clinical educational services to participants and their families. May assist with coordinating aspects of research, including interactions with research staff and study participants, data compilation, and patient recruitment/logistics. May assist with the training of other staff.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
• Provides direct patient nursing care to research participants. • Interacts with research participants to provide nursing care, administration of research interventions and specimen collection. • Provides clinical education services to research participants and family regarding study participation, participants current clinical condition, and or disease process. • Monitors research participant and reports potential adverse events to a member of the research team. • Records research data (vital signs, research compound administered, participant responses) in approved source document (medical record, data collection sheet). • Triages patient by phone and provides clinical information to the patient. • May also coordinate patient visit to follow up on clinical issues and provide necessary care. • Assists with recruitment and logistics of study participants. • Completes and documents study participant enrollment, assessment/reassessment, education, and follow-up activities. • Performs and coordinates study participant interventions as required. • Serves as a liaison between study participant and PI or other research staff. • Prepares data spreadsheets for Investigator and/or department. • Completes Case Report Forms. • Assists with data compilation and documentation. • May assist with the training staff. • May process, ship, track or otherwise handle research specimens.
Qualifications
• Educational Requirements: Associate of Science degree in Nursing (ASN)/College Diploma in Nursing, required. • Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN), preferred. • Experience Requirements: 2 years of clinical nursing experience required. 1 year of clinical research experience required. • License & Certification Requirements: Valid and current California RN license is required upon hire. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification is required upon hire.
Cedars Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the United States, and it is the largest private academic medical center in the Western United States. The Cedars Sinai main campus, which encompasses nearly 24 acres, is located at the point where the cities of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and West Hollywood meet. Cedars Sinai has been recognized annually by U.S. News & World Report’s top 10 best hospitals in the U.S. The institution most recently placed No. 7 among a select group of 20 Honor Roll hospitals and ranked nationally in a dozen specialties. In addition, Cedars Sinai ranked No. 3 in California and No. 2 in the Los Angeles metro area.
Within Cedars Sinai, the Institute for Research on Health Aging conducts multi-disciplinary research that prioritizes the prevention of cardiovascular disease, neurocognitive disease, and cancer. Our focus is on translating new research discoveries into pragmatic interventions aimed at promoting healthy aging across diverse populations. Our approach involves human physiology, cohort, and clinical trial studies and our team includes established experts in population, clinical, translational, basic, and data science.