Certified Nurse Practitioner

Company Overview

Axle is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision‑making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country, including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Provide direct medical care and treatment for individuals enrolled in human subjects research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program.

• Meet with lab members to present updates on a weekly basis.
• Provide clinical coverage of clinical and research procedures and promote patient safety over time.
• Enter medical orders and review laboratory and other diagnostic test results with guidance from a physician or collaboration with other staff.
• Communicate and collaborate with the multidisciplinary research team to ensure patient management strategies meet patient care and research needs.
• Perform intake and preliminary evaluation of potential subjects through e‑Interviewing, review of medical records, safety screening, and consultation with treating professionals.
• Screen healthy subjects and patients; interview subjects to obtain social, medical, and medication histories.
• Prescribe and recommend drugs or other forms of treatment under the direction of a physician.
• Initiate and coordinate visits, drug orders, laboratory procedures, consultations, and treatments for patients based on clinical needs or protocol requirements.
• Monitor patients for toxicities of treatment and other possible adverse reactions that may require emergency treatment or revision of the prescribed regimen.
• Administer and adjust trial medication under the guidance of a physician.
• Document and monitor grading of side effects related to study interventions, including drugs and psychological behaviors.
• Monitor drug compliance by subjects throughout the life of the protocol and document missed doses of medication.
• Obtain medical histories and take histories for physical examinations or daily progress evaluations.
• Review patient charts to collect relevant clinical data and analyze trends in patient responses collected through structured and semi‑structured interviews.
• Communicate with patients’ home physicians and family care institutions for the release of medical records, imaging studies, and pathology slides.
• Perform physical examinations, including complex testing of patients in accordance with research protocols.
• Document medical chart entries manually and electronically within standard applications and software programs using the appropriate format.
• Assess the patient’s general health status through observation and appropriate screening procedures and document results and findings.
• Participate in patient rounds and protocol meetings to provide comprehensive patient management support.
• Participate in research group meetings and in the decision‑making process regarding patient inclusion in studies, diagnoses, and management throughout.
• Order laboratory tests and interpret results for research or medical staff and patients.
• Maintain individual patient schedules and liaison with nursing and other evaluating staff.
• Provide education to patients and their caregivers on diagnostic procedures and treatment plans.
• Interpret data and determine normal and abnormal findings that merit immediate clinical action.
• Provide comprehensive documentation of procedures, tests, results, and findings to researchers and medical staff.
• Ensure proper illness and injury care, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
• Provide health care maintenance, diagnostic and therapeutic services, education, and counseling.

• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• 401(k) match up to 5%
• Educational Benefits for Career Growth
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Healthcare (FSA)
  • Parking Reimbursement Account…