CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE COORDINATOR I-H (PART-TIME)

CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE COORDINATOR I-H (PART-TIME)-(T218314)

Description

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Department of Nutrition Sciences Research, is seeking a Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator I - H.

The Nutrition for Precision Health Study aims to understand individual responses to food to help prevent and fight health conditions affected by nutrition.

The Nutrition for Precision Health study is a NIH Common Fund program consisting of three Modules with multiple recruitment sites across the country.

This position will support recruitment of participants and coordination of study activities for Module 1 and Module 2. Module 1 is an observational study where we will collect measurements over 8-10 days to characterize an individual's dietary intake, nutritional status, and physiological responses following a meal challenge.

General Responsibilities

• To serve as coordinator for clinical research studies and provides support to other study team members for research trials, studies, and projects within the confines of the study protocols as directed.
• To support protocol screening and study participant eligibility determination, working with more senior study team members to ensure compliance.
• To conduct all study activities in accordance with the protocol, Institutional Review Board (IRB) regulations, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
• May provide quality care to participants and their families within the area of clinical specialty.
• To assist with the life cycle of the study from start-up through maintenance to closure. To coordinate and organize participant care including recruitment, screening, scheduling, consenting, conducting visits, and collecting various assessments such as adverse event (AE) information or questionnaires.
• To perform the informed consent process following GCP.
• To act as a liaison among the clinical and research staff, departments, ancillary services and the study sponsor to ensure protocol compliance throughout the study.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Performs biospeciman collection and processing procedures, including IV catheter placement for serial blood draws, single-stick blood draw collection, processing and aliquoting blood / urine / saliva samples.
• Performs clinical assessments for data collection, including measuring height, weight, blood pressure, and waist / hip circumferences.

This may include being trained and performing DXA and Resting Energy Expenditure measurements.

• Reviews paper source documents and electronic data capture forms for completeness.
• Documents Adverse Event information into electronic data capture forms.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Hourly Range : $25.25 - $41.05

Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field required. Work experience may substitute for education requirement. Currently licensed or eligible to be licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the Alabama Board of Nursing required.

Primary Location

University

Job Category

Clinical Research

Organization

352007000 Nutrition Sciences Research

Employee Status

RegularShift : Day / 1st ShiftWork Arrangement (final schedule to be determined by the department / hiring manager) : Onsite