Clinical Research Nurse - Hebrew SeniorLife, Inc.
Roslindale, MA 02131-1000
About the Job
The Project Director II will be responsible for carrying out an intervention focused on medication optimization in nursing homes as part of a large, clinical trial. The Project Director II will work under the direction of and report to the Principal Investigator. 5 years’ experience as an RN is necessary with an active license to practice. A Compact license is preferred but not required.
Responsibilities:
- Review of electronic medical records
- Recommending changes in medications in accordance with study protocol and evidence-based algorithms, with the support of an interprofessional team.
- Conducting shared decision-making with patients and their proxies/family members to inform the plan of care.
- Communicating recommendations to the nursing home and community providers
- Facilitating order implementation for medication changes
- Providing self-management support for patients who have had medication changes
- Providing patient, proxy, provider and staff education
- Monitoring for and documenting adverse events for patients who have had medication changes.
The Program Director II will work across multiple skilled nursing facilities and will come into the office on a hybrid schedule. He/she will work under the direction and report to the Principal Investigator.
He/she is expected to work within the limits of standard research practice and follow established policies and procedures when executing all responsibilities. These responsibilities include:
- Participate in study onboarding activities including training regarding deprescribing and osteoporosis treatment; use of electronic data collection tools and broad study organization.
- Develop or assist in development of standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Implement the standard operating procedures (SOPs),
- Timely execution of study protocol (data gathering, randomization, fidelity to intervention).
- Timely data management including participant and study level documentation, ensuring electronic data capture aligns with SOP (includes data that are complex in nature and/or require access to the electronic health record)
- Oversee recruitment efforts and target by working closely with the Project Director responsible for recruitment.
- Employ and develop strategies as needed to maintain recruitment and retention rates and evaluate processes to identify problems.
- Escalate issues if needed.
- Attend all regular study meetings, and report to the Principal Investigator.
- When executing these responsibilities, he/she will ensure regulatory compliance including both governmental (NIA,FDA) and institutional (IRB), Office of Human Subjects Protection (OHRP) and adherence to HIPAA regulations. He/she will assure that informed consent is obtained, and when working with nursing home populations, or cognitively impaired populations, following established governmental guidelines for research with vulnerable populations.
- He/she will review, evaluate and make verbal or written reports as directed by his/her supervisor and perform special projects or other related duties as responsibilities necessitate.
- As a member of Marcus Institute, he/she will agree to occasionally serve as a consultant to Marcus principal investigators and provide functional leadership to institute research coordinators to facilitate/plan successful studies.
- He/she may be required to present to professional and lay community through co-authored publications and oral presentations as necessary.
- The above covers the most significant responsibilities of the position. It does not, however, exclude other duties, which would be in conformity with the level of the position. Completes special projects as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- 5 years of nursing experience including work in nursing homes and work using electronic health records.
- Must be well organized and have outstanding communication skills.
- Must be comfortable using videoconferencing.
- Prior research experience with clinical trials is not required but is ideal.
- Prior experience with electronic data collection (EDC) is an asset.
- An understanding of clinical and research pertinent to older nursing home residents would also be considered an asset.
- Expert interpersonal skills are required to guide and encourage complete participation in study protocols and to forge and maintain productive working relationships with participants, families, providers, research team members, internal and external collaborators and vendors, and others.
- Have excellent computer skills including ability to communicate with email, use MSWord, MSExcel, MS PowerPoint, Pub Med searches, and internet applications for online meetings. Must have solid foundation or aptitude to learn electronic data capture systems.
- Working knowledge of the regulations governing the conduct of human studies research.
- Must be professional, proactive, collaborative, conscientious and results-oriented individual. Must have an optimistic and positive demeanor, excellent oral and written communication skills, good intuition and able to adapt to changing priorities and display good, sound judgment with a sense of humor.
- Superb organizational skills. Must have solid analytical skills. Must be creative and proactive yet disciplined, discriminating and able to streamline work volume in order to maintain bottom line efforts in midst of multi-tasking and daily re-prioritizing. Must have ability to innovate, think strategically and conceptually, manage multiple projects simultaneously and handle even difficult situations.
- Must be motivated to learn and flexible to change.
Preferred Qualifications:
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