RN, Research - Oncology

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1.0 FTE Full time Day - 8 Hour Hybrid  BMT Clinic Blake Wilbur Nursing Palo Alto, California.

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875 Blake Wilbur Dr, California.

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Job Title: Oncology Research Nursing Professional

License: California Registered Nurse

Specialty: Solid-Tumor Cellular Therapy

Schedule: Hybrid, 8 hour shifts, Monday - Friday

Location: Palo Alto, California

The Oncology Research Nursing Professional (ORNP) is a Registered Nurse (RN) who works collaboratively with Clinical Research Staff including Physicians, Clinical Research Associates (CRA), APPs, Clinical Nurses, Pharmacists, and clinic staff to coordinate care for an assigned population of patients enrolled in cancer center clinical research trials. The ORNP is the research expert of the multi-disciplinary team, operates independently, and is accountable for the accurate conduct of their assigned cancer research protocol portfolio.

Primary activities include educating the team on the protocol, setting up operational workflows, and ensuring adherence to good clinical practices. The ORNP collaborates with PIs on assessment, management, and coordination of research patient care across the continuum of care (outpatient, inpatient and home), including triage of phone calls and proactive patient communication. The ORNP educates patients and families on clinical trial treatments, required testing, and protocol-specific visits and expectations.

Serves as lead for the disease center research portfolio and works with the CRC on the implementation, coordination, and documentation of trial requirements in alignment with clinical trial and operational requirements.

• Clinical Trial Management
• Collaborates with the investigator and serves as lead on study patient screening, eligibility determination and enrollment assessments on assigned clinical trials, including documentation of criteria specified in the clinical trial.
• Uses independent judgement to assess, identify, and prioritize clinical information to physician, NP, PA and other clinicians for patients evaluated or enrolled in a clinical trial.
• Assesses and documents signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to treatment, changes in physical or psychological condition and general appearance according to the protocol, ensuring documentation is complete and accurate to avoid protocol deviations.
• Manage patient/family phone calls – collaborating with MD, NP and/or PA as needed to obtain orders for patient management.
• Manage and communicate all aspects of care as defined by the research protocol with the physician and other health care professionals and research team members.
• Collaborates with CRC to assure a therapeutic clinical trial flag is placed on the patient during active treatment and removes the flag when participation ends or treatment is complete.
• Plans, coordinates, and completes randomization (if applicable), patient assessments, treatments and follow-up care according to the protocol treatment plan, demonstrating multi-tasking, prioritization, and attention to detail.
• Informed Consent Process – manages the consent process to ensure compliance with institutional, FDA, IRB, sponsor and other regulations.
• Oversees and participates in educating the patient regarding the clinical trial and documents education in the medical record.
• Alerts principal investigator to concerns raised by the patient during the informed consent process.
• Ensures signed consent for the protocol is scanned timely into the medical record and aligns with institutional and sponsor processes.
• Protocol Compliance – oversees and assists CRCs with monitors visits, site visits and study close-outs; collaborates on documentation reviews during protocol audits.
• Develops protocol-specific Beacon order sets (or paper if needed) with the investigational pharmacy, nursing, and PI for therapeutic trials; ensures orders are reviewed, approved and posted in CTOL.
• Promotes compliance with protocol procedures and processes as outlined in the trial.
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