RESEARCH STAFF NURSE / PER DIEM DAY SHIFTS / BWH CENTER FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Excellent Care to Patients and Familie

• The Best Staff

• In the Safest Environment

Nursing at Brigham and Women's Hospital is known for their excellent clinical practice and for keeping patients and their families at the center of all they do. We understand that great care is shaped by relationships with patients and their families. That's why we're committed to knowing our patients on a deeper level - not just as patients, but as individuals - to ensure that they, and their families, feel known and cared for.

At BWH, we proudly work together with a spirit of inquiry and a deep commitment to providing the highest quality, evidence-informed and theory-guided care in an inclusive environment. We work each day to achieve our vision - to provide excellent care to patients and families, with the best staff, in the safest environment.

Just as we have been able to reinvent health care, we have also transformed health care careers. Whether measured in terms of lives saved, awards earned, or the personal satisfaction of stretching your talents - a career with BWH is unlike any other in the health care field. Here you'll find a workplace where collaboration and teamwork are the norm, not the exception - physicians, nurses, technicians, staff and management form a close-knit bond, based on mutual respect and devotion to our patients. If you want an enormously fulfilling career, there's no better place to be.

This Outpatient Research Nurse will be responsible for using the nursing process, to deliver professional nursing care throughout the study, to include:

• Effectively communicate routine to complex study information to participants
• Obtain all necessary approvals and informed consent forms
• Perform required nursing procedures, including drug administration and phlebotomy
• Act as liaison between patient and other members of the team regarding patient care activities relating to the research protocol
• Provide consultation to primary physicians, nurses and technicians regarding protocol implementation. Work with physicians to determine action plans.
• Draft source documentation worksheets as studies require.
• Work with Trial Pharmacist and others to develop templates for studies that require templates.

Depending on the needs of the protocol:

• Perform nursing assessments of subjects to include physical findings and report any adverse events
• Administer research medication as needed
• Evaluate effects of medication for expected and or unexpected results
• Provide documentation of research devices where applicable

Qualifications

To qualify you must have:

A. Education: Graduate of an approved school of nursing with current registration in Massachusetts.

B. Experience: 5 years' experience with adult medical/surgical patients and 2 years of experience as a nurse, with IV experience required

C. Detail-oriented concerning the collection and documentation of research samples and data.

D. Flexible with hours to meet the needs of the research study. Flexibility and willingness to travel to different clinic locations through the day.

E. Chemotherapy/biologic drug administration certification, preferred.

F. Proficient with IV insertion as well as experience with central lines preferred. Phlebotomy and blood drawing off IV lines preferred.

EEO Statement

Brigham and Women's Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, veteran status, disability unrelated to job requirements, genetic information, military service, or other protected status.