Supervising Advanced Practice Nurse; Cell Therapy Research

Supervising Advanced Practice Nurse (Cell Therapy Research)

Recruitment/Posting Title Supervising Advanced Practice Nurse (Cell Therapy Research)

Job Category

Department

Department CINJ - OHRS Clinical-CRC

Overview

RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE VISION , MISSION , AND CORE VALUES :

VISION :

Through our science, our evidence-based actions, our openness, and our respect for those we serve, we will advance cancer-focused research worldwide and reduce the burden of cancer in our catchment area. By engaging with and empowering our exceptionally diverse populations, and addressing their questions and fears, we will engender hope for cancer patients and their families and play a critical role in strengthening the fabric of our communities by gaining and protecting their trust and providing access to the outstanding oncology care each person deserves.

MISSION :

Our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery focused on understanding cancer, innovating cancer treatment, and improving cancer prevention; to provide outstanding, novel, and compassionate patient care; to provide evidence-based and culturally informed education to physicians, nurses, researchers, staff, and the community; and to achieve cancer health equity in our state through outreach to and engagement of our extraordinarily diverse communities.

CORE VALUES :

Curiosity and Discovery: encouraging an environment of continuous inquiry, creativity, and innovation to generate new knowledge

Integrity: earning the trust of those we serve and each other through honesty, transparency, accountability, and continuous reflection

Collaboration:

approaching all opportunities with an understanding that together we are better and can achieve more; promoting and maintaining an environment of teamwork and shared knowledge

Respect and Caring: consistently demonstrating caring, compassion, and respect through our words and actions

Perseverance: maintaining an unwavering commitment to our mission; embracing change, overcoming obstacles, and creating and recreating the path to achieve our goals

Posting Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Supervising Advanced Practice Nurse of Cell Therapy Research within the Office of Human Research Services ( OHRS ) at the Rutgers Cancer Institute. The primary purpose of the Supervising Advanced Practice Nurse of Cell Therapy Research is to provide day business administrative leadership and clinical management of assigned areas through skillful directing, coaching, support, and delegation to research staff in the provision of clinically safe, fiscally sound, compassionate care and services.

The incumbent ensures that all cell therapy clinical research conducted within the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey ( RCINJ ) is according to Good Clinical Practice ( GCP ) guidelines and applicable Institutional, State, and Federal regulations and guidelines.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Manages all daily clinical research operations and assigned endeavors, keeping executive management informed of trends and changes. Oversees the delivery of all clinical research activities daily. Provides guidance and direction to the clinical research staff. Monitors quality of patient care for all patients enrolled into clinical trials.
• Oversees the organization and prioritization of workflow. Provides guidance and direction regarding cell therapy trials to the nursing, pharmacy and physician leadership throughout RCINJ Oncology Service Line. Collaborates with the DSG leader to prioritize patient screening and treatment workflows.
• Works collaboratively with physicians, nurses, nurse coordinators, pharmacy, Advanced Practice Nurses, and appropriate hospital and laboratory staff to ensure that services are promptly coordinated and delivered to patients.
• Provides patient coverage when appropriate. Actively participates in protocol review, implementation, subject screening, enrollment, patient management, toxicity monitoring, and data entry.
• Serves as the primary operational liaison between the clinical research team and the Principal Investigator’s research laboratory, specifically managing the translational workflow of the cell therapy program.
• Ensures all translational sample data, collection, processing, shipment, and storage procedures outlined in the clinical trial are accurately implemented by the research team and meet the rigorous quality standards required by the investigator’s lab and regulatory bodies.
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