Description
Clinical Trials Associate I - Bilingual (Pediatric Infectious Disease)
1807757
Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity — of culture, thinking, learning and leading — is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
Click Here To View The VUMC Promise of Discovery
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt is one of the nation's leading children's hospitals. We treat and help prevent all health issues ranging from colds and broken bones to heart disease and cancer.
The world-class facilities at Children's Hospital are a testament to our community's dedication to the health of children. Constructed in 2004 and expanded in 2012, our 271-bed hospital is a child-friendly place built on the science of healing.
A building alone does not make a great hospital. Our exceptional medical teams and the generous support of people like you enable us to provide every child who comes to us with the hope of improved health. Children's Hospital is a nonprofit facility. No child who needs our services is denied care on the basis of limited ability to pay.
Many of our doctors and surgeons are nationally recognized researchers who are finding new ways to cure and prevent childhood diseases. Their work preventing and treating premature birth, cancer, heart disease, spina bifida, and many other conditions is an investment in the future. We are at an important crossroads in child health. Our commitment to research and advocacy positions us to bring the promise of good health to children and families in our community and to share that hope with the world.
Your Role :
Performs a variety of duties involved in the collection, interpretation, and documentation of data in support of clinical trials. Assists in ensuring adherence to protocols, appropriate regulations, and deadlines. Ensures quality of information received.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists nurse in assessing patient eligibility for approved study.
- Knowledgeable of protocols in order to determine specific criteria for eligibility or exclusion.
- Gathers complete medical history of patient.
- Ensures patient consent forms are completed.
- Reviews medical history to determine eligibility status
- Discusses findings with research nurse.
- Processes patient data and runs reports as needed.
- Abstracts and records all patient data essential to the study onto required case report forms.
- Sets up timeline of tests and required procedures for nurse.
- Inputs all pertinent patient data into database accurately
- Collects and monitors all study patients records to document treatments and outcomes as required by the protocol
- Reports all adverse reactions according to VU and protocol guidelines
- Checks values from lab and rates toxicity levels
- Ensures complete source documentation in record
- Ensures treatment and dates match
- Assists nurse and Clinical Trials Specialist with monitoring compliance with protocol and regulations
- Ensures deadlines are met for study
- Informs nurse of tests and procedures as needed
- Schedules shipping of specimens and samples to meet protocol deadlines.
- Coordinates with patient's PCP or testing facility to ensure tests or procedures are conducted as required.
- Prepares kits for procedures, labels tubes, gives to nurse with specific times and dates for collection.
- Freezes, spins, separates samples, and cultures as necessary. Mails to designated labs.
- Meets with and assists in response to sponsors and monitors to ensure compliance with protocol and applicable regulations.
- Meets with and assists in response to sponsors and monitors to ensure compliance with protocol and applicable regulations.
- Answers queries from sponsoring companies.
- Meets with monitors to respond to any question of data validity.
- Conducts follow-up of study patients.
- Calls or sends questionnaires to patient to check outcomes, survival rate, and quality of life.
- Informs tumor registry, appropriate clinics, and hospital of patient status.
- May conduct outside audits of other institutions data.
- Knowledgeable of protocol
- Examine data and records to ensure compliance with protocol.
Position Qualifications
Required:
Associate's Degree (or equivalent experience) and 1 year experience
Shift:
Variable
VUMC Recent Accomplishments
Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:
· US News & World Report: #1 Hospital in Tennessee, #1 Health Care Provider in Nashville, #1 Audiology ( Bill Wilkerson Center ), 12 adult and 10 pediatric clinical specialties ranked among the nation's best, #15 Education and Training
· Truven Health Analytics: among the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in the U.S.
· Becker's Hospital Review: one of the "100 Greatest Hospitals in America"
· The Leapfrog Group: grade "A" in Hospital Safety Score
· National Institutes of Health: among the top 10 grant awardees for medical research in the US
· Magnet Recognition Program: Vanderbilt nurses are the only group honored in Tennessee
· Nashville Business Journal: Middle Tennessee's healthiest employer
· American Hospital Association: among the 100 "Most Wired" medical systems in the US
