Clinic Nurse

Job Title: Clinic Nurse (RN)
Location: 160 Dental Cir, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Duration: 11 Months
Shift: Monday to Thursday: 7 am 5:30 pm; Friday: 7 am 1:30 pm; occasional evening shifts

Job Description:
The RN will provide nursing services with a focus on the care of participants who volunteer for clinical research studies conducted primarily in an ambulatory setting.
The RN will provide specialized, professional nursing care to research subjects for healthy volunteers and to those with unusual and distinctive medical problems according to federal regulations, Good Clinical Practice, and local and institutional polices.
The RN will provide management of clinical and research support activities in order to assure patient safety, address clinical needs, and assure protocol integrity and accurate data collection.

Duties include but are not limited to:
Providing direct, individualized patient care to adult and pediatric research participants.
Administering investigational medications.
Patient monitoring.
Phlebotomy and IV insertion.
Data collection including obtaining vital signs, measuring height and weight.
Assisting with procedures.
Performing ECGs.
Performing point-of-care testing.
Collection and processing of biological specimens.
Providing direction and health teaching where applicable and within scope of practice in relation to study protocol activities, reporting and recording care rendered, and reporting the patient s response to that care.

Other responsibilities:
Administrative and non-direct patient care activities including cleaning of patient care areas and equipment, ordering and stocking of supplies, quality assurance activities, patient check-in/out and creation of outpatient visits in electronic health record, and other office duties as assigned.

Must have:
Ability to independently implement the nursing process to meet patient needs.
Administration and monitoring of medication.
Basic Life Support Certificate.
Detailed Oriented.
Knowledge of basic nursing principles and techniques.
Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina.
Patient Care.
Registered Nurse.
The candidate must be flexible, collaborative and willingness to assist others when needed.
The candidate must be able to work independently and as well as part of a team, have excellent attention to detail, and possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
Must have strong organizational skills and able to successfully balance multiple competing priorities.
Must be able to work with a variety of people in a professional, effective, diplomatic manner and maintain effective communications with patients, health care personnel, staff, and others.
The candidate must have strong visual attention and mental concentration with or without accommodation is required at all times in this capacity due to the clinical nature of the work.
The candidate must have the ability to remain in front of a computer for extended periods of time, ability to bend to perform duties standard in providing health care and the ability to move 35 pounds with or without accommodation.
The candidate must have demonstrated ability to work in a high pressure and in a multitasking, diverse environment.

Nice to have:
At least 2 years years of current clinical nursing experience in an acute care setting, urgent care, ambulatory setting, or physician s office.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
EPIC.
Experience working with human subjects research.
Experience working with pediatric patients in a clinical setting.
Phlebotomy.
Proficient with inserting PIV catheter's.