Research Nurse Clinician; Peds

Position Details

Recruitment/Posting

Title:

Research Nurse Clinician (Peds)

Job Category:
Staff & Executive
- Healthcare
- Nursing

Department: CINJ - OHRS Clinical RNC

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.

The primary purpose of the Research Nurse Clinician (RNC) is to ensure successful, patient‑oriented, safe, and effective conduct of clinical trials at the Rutgers Cancer Institute. The RNC assists investigators to prepare and implement new clinical trials, screen and enroll study participants, and provide protocol‑related clinical management to those participants while on study. Additionally, the RNC serves as a resource to other Cancer Institute faculty and staff on available protocols and general research topics such as FDA, IRB, and GCP regulations.

Among the key duties for this position are the following:

• Collaborates with the Protocol Activation office to initiate and activate all new clinical trial protocols assigned utilizing the OnCore Study‑start up task list.
• Reviews protocol; collects multidisciplinary logistical, educational and financial feedback to identify potential obstacles to safe, effective study conduct; actively identifies and resolves obstacles in collaboration with the Principal Investigator (PI).
• Collaborates with the clinical research team to ensure timely prescreening of potential subjects and or active cancer patients for all available clinical trials.
• Reviews patient's charts and medical history to confirm protocol eligibility and obtains source documents (i.e., medical record documentation) as needed.
• Serves as an essential link between patients and all other members of the research team.
• Actively identifies, addresses, and communicates to study team and supervisor any challenges with completion of protocol required procedures and/or adherence to protocol required timelines.
• Drives collaboration with all integrated, academic medical system staff to ensure that services are coordinated and delivered to patients in a timely manner. Assists in the promotion of teamwork and delegates tasks to other groups as appropriate.
• In collaboration with the physician, accurately grades adverse events using the protocol referenced version of National Cancer Institute (NCI) common toxicity criteria or protocol specific grading scales to objectively document toxicities. Provides informal teaching/coaching to clinicians on proper toxicity assessment grading.