Job Department: Professional Services

The purpose of this position is to provide direct medical care and treatment for individuals enrolled in human subjects research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program.

• Meet with lab members to present updates – Weekly

• Provide clinical coverage of clinical and research procedures and promote the safety of patients over time. – 1
• Enter medical orders and review lab and other diagnostic tests and laboratory studies test results for normal and abnormal findings with guidance from a physician or collaboration with other staff. – 2
• Communicate and collaborate with the multidisciplinary research team to ensure that patient management strategies are successful in meeting patient care and research needs. – 3
• Perform intake and preliminary evaluation of potential subjects through e-Interviewing, review of medical records, completion of safety screening, consultation with treating professionals, and with medical staff. – 4
   
• Screen healthy subjects and patients and interview subjects to obtain social and medical history and medication history. – 5
• Prescribes and recommends drugs or other forms of treatment under the direction of a physician.
• Initiate and coordinate visits, drug orders, laboratory procedures, consultations, and treatments for patients based on clinical needs or protocol requirements.
• Monitor patients for toxicities of treatment and other possible adverse reactions to drugs or procedures that may require emergency treatment or revision of the prescribed regimen.
• Administer and adjust trial medication under the guidance of a physician.
• Provide documentation and monitoring and grading of side effects related to a variety of study interventions including drugs and psychological behaviors.
• Monitor drug compliance by subjects throughout the life of the protocol and document missed doses of medication.
• Obtains medical histories.
• Take histories and perform physical examinations or perform daily progress evaluations for inpatients or follow-up visits for outpatients and document appropriately.

• Review patient’s charts to collect relevant clinical data and analyze trends in patient responses collected through structured and semi structured interviews with patients and patients’ families.

   

• Communicate with patients’ home physicians and family care institutions for the release of medical records, imaging studies and pathology slides.
• Performs physical exams.
• Perform physical examinations of adult patients with complex and difficult multi-system diseases, enter results into patient charts and address any concerns that arise from research participants following completion of examination.
• Perform comprehensive medical histories research and document findings per institutional and protocol standards.
• Perform clinical data recording and medical chart entries manually and electronically within standard applications and software programs using the appropriate format and following institutional and protocol standards.
• Assess the patient’s general health status through observation and appropriate screening procedures and document results and findings.
• Perform complex physical testing of patients and research participants in accordance with research protocols beyond general physical examination and record results and findings.
• Assesses and tracks illnesses of patients and supports overall diagnosis and clinical research.
• Assess patient care needs such as acute and non-acute clinical problems and toxicities.
• Participate in patient rounds and protocol meetings and provide comprehensive patient management support.
• Participate in research group meetings and in the decision-making process regarding patient inclusion in the studies, diagnoses and patient and family management throughout.
• Orders laboratory tests and interprets results for research or medical staff and patients.

• Maintain individual patient schedules throughout the visit as liaison with nursing and other evaluating staff.

   

• Provide education to patients and their caregivers on diagnostic procedures and treatment plans.
• Interpret data and determine normal and abnormal findings that merit immediate clinical action.
• Provide comprehensive documentation of procedures conducted, tests administered, results and findings and present to researchers and medical staff.

• Ensures proper illness and injury care, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

   

• Provide health care maintenance, diagnostic and therapeutic services, education and counseling.

Certifications & Licenses

• National and State Accreditation

Field of Study

• General Medical and Health Services

Software

• Microsoft Suite

Skills

• Good Clinical Practices

The purpose of this position is to administer several Linux computers in our research facility and to perform basic data processing.

• Clean Equipment – Ad-Ho
• cRun Validation – Ad-Hoc
• Inspect Equipment – Ad-Hoc
• Meet with lab members to present updates – Ad-Hoc

• Support and maintain scientific computer systems including hardware, operating systems, and associated services in a high-performance computing environment. – 1
• Design, develop, document, analyze, create, test and modify computer systems, programs and integrations. – 2
• Perform statistical analysis of experimental data obtained at various time points. – 3
• Provide performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization across the full range of scientific high-performance computing architecture. – 4
• Utilize knowledge of data structure, data management and various programming language. – 5

• Provides technical experience needed to perform analyses, processing and user support of various computer systems using standard statistical procedures and techniques.

• Provide statistical support to staff, including data analysis and the generation tools for researchers to use.

• Provide software recommendations and solutions across diverse scientific applications, including freeware relevant to analyses of scientific discovery.

   

• Sets up and uses various computer systems and software packages.

• Develop methods for analyzing complex datasets from various sources; document methodological approaches to data analysis performed, including detailed procedures and rationale.

   

• Compiles and manages data and assists with quality control.

   

• Drive collection of new data and the refinement of existing data.

• Produces various reports, graphs and figures for presentation.

• Prepare data and analysis for presentations and publication.

• Prepare research data for presentation and manuscripts.

Certifications & Licenses

• N/A

Field of Study

• Computer Administration Management and Security
• Computer and Information Systems
• Computer Programming and Data Processing
• Computer Science
• Chemistry
• Biochemical Sciences
• Physics

Software

• R
• Pandas
• Python
• SQLite
• Linux
• MySQL
• NumPy
• MariaDB
• Bash
• Git

Skills

• Scientific Data analysis
• Statistical modeling
• Database management
• Data visualization
• Linux Administration
• Data cleaning

Provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of the National Institute on Aging. The primary objective is to provide services and deliverables through performance of support services.

• Work products and documents related to assessing participant’s physiologic condition; assist physicians during examinations and procedures; provide cardiac monitoring; administer and document medications per doctor’s orders; assess, record and report patient reactions to drugs; report study adverse reactions – Ad-Hoc
• Clean Equipment – Ad-Hoc
• Work products and documents related to inserting and maintaining peripheral access intravenous (IV) lines; perform phlebotomy; follow established policies, procedures and regulatory guidelines for proper disposal of biohazard and chemical wastes. – Ad-Hoc
• Work products and documents related to implementing Quality Control measures; coordinate evacuations; coordinate the security of the premises; respond to security issues and breaches. – Ad-Hoc
• Work products and documents related to obtaining informed consent; inform staff regarding progress of protocols and functions of clinical unit; provide daily report; serve as receptor of new personnel. – Ad-Hoc
• Work products and documents related to entering data into medical report, case report forms and computer systems; attend patient rounds and meetings; provide participant education. – Ad-Hoc

• Plan, implement, evaluate and document care provided, per protocol requirements and good clinical practice standards. – 1
• Perform testing procedures on night shift as required per protocol or schedules. – 2
• Insert and maintain peripheral access intravenous (IV) lines as needed. – 3
• Performs assessments and collects medical histories and physicals.
• Assess participant’s physiologic condition upon admission, and monitor throughout visit and upon discharge.
• Assess patient through follow-up by phone, written correspondence or email.
• After training in protection of human subject’s research issues and approval of Principal Investigator (PI), obtain informed consent.
• Provide daily shift report.
• Enter clinical and research data into medical records, case report forms and/or computer systems.
• Assist physicians during examinations and procedures.
• Performs procedures like IV placement, phlebotomy and administering medications. and monitors patient progress.
• Perform phlebotomy to collect clinical and research blood samples per doctor’s orders and protocol requirements.
• Administer and document medications per doctor’s orders
• Assess, record and report patient reactions to drugs; report study drug adverse reactions to staff.
• Provide cardiac monitoring if indicated.
• Teaches patients and families about conditions, treatments and medications.
• Provide participant education regarding the research program or testing procedure and instruct participants on computerized testing.
• Perform appropriate action plan in response to emergency situations and/or illness of participants, including direct admissions for participants.
• Collaborates with physician to plan, evaluate, coordinate and revise program to deliver the most efficient health care service.
• Incorporate research protocol requirements into the delivery of care for participants in support of the research efforts.
• Follow established policies, procedures and regulatory guidelines for proper disposal of biohazard and chemical wastes.
• Implement Quality Control measures
• Incorporate research protocol requirements into the delivery of care for participants in support of the NIA research efforts, in accordance with standards of NIA Protocol Office and IRB.
• After training, perform specialized testing as per protocol.
• Distribute work assigned on the night shift and ensure completeness.
• Attend staff meetings and other appropriate clinical meetings as needed.
• After documented training in protection of human subject’s research issues and approval of Principal Investigator (PI), obtain informed consent.
• Participate in development and training programs, both internally and externally.
• Assists Nurse Practitioners evaluate and make recommendations to improve patient care and adhere to good clinical practices.
• Serve as Floor Team Coordinator (FTC) in the event of a fire and manage evacuations to ensure safety of participants, visitors and staff.
• Ensure the security of the premises and respond to security issues and breaches
• Serve as preceptor for new personnel.
• Participate in development and training programs as needed.
• Provide participant education.
• Inform Clinical Nurse Manager and staff of the progress of protocols and the functions of the clinical unit; provide relevant and timely input on pertinent nursing implications for the NIA Research Unit.

Certifications & Licenses

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
   

Field of Study

• Nursing
   

Software

• MS Office Suite

Skills

• Strong communications skills, both oral and written
• Minimum of one (1) year of related experience