Clinical Research Registered Nurse

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center.

McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

The CRN is a member of the clinical research team and assists in the recruitment, compliance and follow-up of patients that are eligible for, or registered to a clinical trial. The CRN provides specialized nursing care that ensures exceptional, ethical, safe care yielding high-quality data. Responsible for managing patient standard of care needs as well as participant and protocol needs through application of independent judgment, communication and collaboration with the research patient, patient’s family, ancillary/support services, the physician, and the clinical research team.

• Provides clinical trial support to ensure patients are offered appropriate clinical trials following Good Clinical Practice standards.
• Assesses, monitors, evaluates, and documents the patient’s compliance and response to protocol treatment
• Provides leadership to other members of the clinical team by articulating expected standards of care as directed by the clinical trial. Delegates and supervises other employees, as assigned, to ensure that the clinical trial plan is carried out and that established outcomes are achieved.
• Participates in process improvement activities of the department to ensure patient safety.
• Demonstrates professionalism and a commitment to improving the work environment through participation in meetings, timely and effective communication, and an embracement of cultural diversity
• Provides clinical research support staff with the documentation needed to determine eligibility and maintain compliance

• Associate Degree from an accredited Nursing program
• Current State of Michigan Registered Nurse license
• Two years of nursing experience

• Research experience in designated area of work
• Nursing experience in area of clinical research focus

• Schedule:
  
  Full-time
• Daily Work Times: 8am - 4:30pm
• On Call:
  No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.