Research Nurse

Job Summary

Want to join a fun, hard-working, collaborative team? Come join the Pediatric Clinical Research Coordination team! The UW Pediatric Clinical Research Coordination team supports clinical research across multiple divisions in the Department of Pediatrics.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to research aimed at prevention, detection, and treatment of disease in children. This position will assist with coordinating a variety of clinical research studies by performing various tasks and activities. These tasks include but are not limited to recruitment, screening, and enrolling study participants and families as well as ensuring study participants and families follow the research study protocol.

Our team of clinical research coordinators and research nurses apply expertise, knowledge, and skills to a broad range of clinical studies, navigate resources, identify issues requiring escalation, and contribute to the development of new team and unit processes, procedures, and tools. The Research Nurse will work in collaboration with pediatric faculty, nurses and staff to coordinate clinical research studies for the Department of Pediatrics ranging from industry partnered to investigator initiated clinical trials.

• This position is full or part-time, 90%-100%
• This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
• This position has been identified as a position of trust with access to vulnerable populations. The selected candidate will be required to pass an initial caregiver check to be eligible for employment under the Wisconsin Caregiver Law and every four years.

• May provide expertise, training, and guidance to the community, peers, and/or students
• Serves a primary point of contact for emergent study participant situations related to adverse effects or complications of the study
• Supervises the day-to-day activities of research work unit
• Collects, verifies, and enters data into database and analyzes clinical information data
• Serves as main point of contact and liaison to project participants, investigators, research sponsors, and the research team delivering study information in accordance with established research project standards and protocols
• Provides appropriate treatment plan direction and information to study participants
• Provides professional nursing care to patients according to established protocols
• Assists in the recruitment and screening of subjects for clinical studies by conducting physical health assessments
• Secures and schedules logistics for clinical research projects according to the research plan

• Minimum 1 year of experience in a clinical setting

• Minimum 2 years of nursing experience
• Experience working in a clinical research role
• Experience working with the pediatric population
• Experience working with research data collection and/or sample processing
• Experience utilizing a variety of platforms such as Health Link or other electronic medical record, Microsoft Office Suite, REDCap, OnCore, and Google Drive
• Clinical Research Certification or Clinical Research Nurse Certification such as CCRP, CCRC, CCRA, or ACRP-CP

• Bachelor's Degree with a focus in nursing required
• Registered Nurse (RN) License required by the start date of the position

The expected salary range for this position is $72,500 up to $80,000 for highly experienced candidates and actual pay within this range will depend on experience and qualifications.

Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. For more information, refer to the campus benefits webpage.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgrounds and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

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