Clinical Nurse
$62,700–$156,700 year
On-siteFairfax, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Conduct comprehensive patient assessments, including vital signs and pre-examination procedures, while documenting all data accurately in medical records. Manage clinical trial patients by coordinating care, providing education on disease processes and medical devices, and ensuring timely completion of protocol-required events such as scans and study visits. Facilitate informed consent discussions, assess patient understanding, and confirm consent before performing study-specific tasks. Collaborate with the investigator, pharmacy, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure protocol compliance, proper study drug accountability, and evidence-based symptom management. Evaluate patient adherence to self-administered agents and determine necessary treatment schedule or dose modifications. At NEXT Oncology, you'll support a mission-driven team focused on precision and patient safety within a collaborative research environment.
Required Qualifications
- Current BLS and ACLS or obtained within 90 days of employment
- Current Virginia Registered Nursing License for RN's
- Knowledge of standard research and oncology care practices
- Ability to advocate for patient safety and protocol integrity
- Ability to adhere to patient care standards
- Ability to communicate effectively to ensure effective conduct of clinical trials and quality patient care
- Ability to adhere to applicable federal, state, and institutional regulations, policies, and procedures related to clinical research
- Ability to comply with NEXT Oncology SOPs
- Ability to provide timely, informative, and accurate communication with the interdisciplinary team
- Ability to collaborate with the PI, pharmacy, and other appropriate personnel to ensure proper use of and accountability for study drugs
- Ability to identify and intervene to address barriers to effective informed consent discussions and decision making
- Ability to describe and abide by institutional policy and processes for informed consent
- Ability to assess patient's understanding of the information provided during the informed consent process
- Ability to ensure timely re-consenting as needed by the physician investigator
- Ability to confirm informed consent is obtained prior to performing any study specific tasks
- Ability to provide complete patient assessment, including vital signs and pre-examination procedures
- Ability to gather and assess objective and subjective data from the patient
- Ability to document data and assessments accurately in the patient record
- Ability to assist the providers in all aspects of the consultation, treatment, procedures, and follow-up care
- Ability to record medical history and symptoms, completing documentation in the medical record
- Ability to coordinate patient care, acting as a liaison with other departments and organizations
- Ability to educate the patient and family regarding clinical condition and/or disease process
- Ability to triage calls for urgent appointments, referrals for patient consults and resting, insurance precertification, and documentation
- Ability to ensure timely completion of protocol-required events and other requirements
- Ability to assess individual patients for physical, psychosocial, and financial factors that could impact adherence with study requirements and implement interventions as necessary
- Ability to evaluate patient's adherence to and documentation of self-administered protocol agents and the return of such agents
- Ability to collaborate with the investigator to determine disease response as defined by the protocol and communicate findings to the study team and other care providers
- Ability to collaborate with the investigator to determine if any treatment schedule or drug dose modification is necessary and communicate findings to the study team and other care providers
- Ability to ensure appropriate communication between clinical and research staff related to patient-specific care needs
- Ability to ensure evidence-based symptom management as permitted by the protocol
- Ability to provide patient health counseling and instruction, including meeting with families and caregivers
- Ability to ensure regulatory compliance with OSHA guidelines, CLIA regulations, HIPAA medical privacy guidelines
- Ability to document all patient encounters in the legal medical record per licensure and institutional requirements
- Ability to obtain documents from outside providers or laboratories that are needed
- Ability to assess documentation or discrepancies and ensure that inaccurate or discrepant documentation is addressed in the medical record or other source documents
- Ability to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of patient's source documents
Desired Qualifications
- Oncology experience preferred
- Clinical trial experience preferred
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