Research Nurse - Neurology (Mobile Stroke Program)

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

UTHealth Houston’s Neurology Department is hiring for a Research Nurse to join their team of professionals. The Research Nurse accountabilities include:

• Provides day-to-day on-site screening and enrollment into at least 2 clinical trials of acute stroke treatment in collaboration with the Mobile Stroke Unit and Memorial Hermann Hospital -Texas Medical Center Emergency Department stroke teams.
• Works under direct supervision of stroke program faculty, and in collaboration with stroke program fellows, residents, and clinical staff.
• Provides day-to-day coordination, oversight, and management of clinical research trials with a wide range of responsibilities, including patient screening, informed consent, enrollment, treatment, completion of case report forms, follow-up, data entry, and response to queries.
• Provides day-to-day administrative coordination, oversight, and management, including scheduling, personnel, facilities, and supplies, in support of research project desired outcomes, accuracy, budgets, and timeliness.
• Ensures record keeping compliant with applicable regulations for human subjects research. Maintains confidential records of collected data, ensuring accuracy and integrity of data.
• Conducts clinical assessments, including NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS).
• Attends study meetings, including investigator meetings, which may require travel.
• Interacts with study monitors.
• Works closely with nursing staff in the Mobile Stroke Unit, Emergency Department, and inpatient Stroke Unit and Intensive Care Unit.
• Submits protocols, consent forms, adverse event reports, and other documents to IRB. Maintain, update, and file regulatory documents.
• Assists with the preparation of budgets, initiates re-budgeting requests based on the needs of research staff, and authorizes expenditures for multiple projects. Attends research-planning meetings to assist in preparing budget drafts.
• Interacts with representatives from state and federal agencies and industry regarding proposals and funded projects.
• May provide scientific direction for research projects of considerable scope and complexity.
• May participate in the publication and presentation of scientific work.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

This position is funded by grants that comprise 50% or more of the funding. Continued employment in this position is contingent upon the availability of funding for this position. Your employment may end upon the cancellation or discontinuation of the project, program, or funding.

Location: 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas 77030

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
  
  

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!
  
  

Position Summary:

The Research Nurse coordinates and conducts research projects and implements the nursing care functions. Recruits, screens, enrolls and follows up with participants throughout the course of the research. May be assigned multiple protocols.

Position Key Accountabilities:

• Recruits, screens & consents participants, and educates research participants regarding the overall research objectives and potential benefits and/or risks for participants, as necessary for research projects.
• Coordinates and administers the nursing care functions within a research project in accordance with research protocols and the daily administration and staff supervision of the project.
• Schedules follow-up visits and maintains contact with participants, participants' families, department staff, pharmaceutical company representatives, other faculty members.
• Distributes research information to faculty, research staff, principal investigator, and others as requested.
• Responsible for preparation of regulatory submission to IRB and applicable regulatory agencies as well as the day-to-day activities of enrolling in clinical studies including trials.
• Inputs data and maintains research databases and related records needed for research.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  

Certification/Skills:

• Clinical knowledge
• Ethics and Regulations
• Interpersonal Skills
• Data Management
• Health Services\RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure required
• Research & Development\Association of Clinical Research Professionals - (ACRP-CP) preferred
  
  

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in nursing from an accredited nursing school required May substitute required education with equivalent years of experience beyond the minimum experience requirement. Minimum Experience:

1 Year Of Experience In Research Required

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently and/or a negligible amount constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive:

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code

• 51.215 and Texas Government Code
• 411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code
• 117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R.
• 791.4. Residency Requirement:
  
  

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.