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Registered Nurse Clinical Research Coordinator

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Sanford Health

Fargo, North Dakota

Eligibility
RN
Shift
8-hour days
Hours a week
40 hrs a week

Posted Sep 1

What the listing says

Role

Schedule
8-hour days · 40 hours
Term
Permanent
Setting
Hospital
Accepts
RN

Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.

Pay

About this role

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.

  • Facility: Sanford Broadway Med Bld
  • Location: Fargo, ND
  • Address: 736 Broadway N, Fargo, ND 58102, USA
  • Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts

Job

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Schedule

Full time

Weekly Hours: 40.00 Salary Range: $27.50 - $44.00

Department Details

As a Clinical Research RN, this position combines compassionate nursing practice with the opportunity to contribute to meaningful clinical studies, helping to improve treatments and outcomes for patients and their families. Daily tasks include coordinating patient visits, educating families on research protocols, and assisting with lab orders, processing, and screenings.

What We Offer

  • Mon-Friday 8:00a-4:30pm shifts
  • Supportive and team-oriented environment
  • Opportunities for ongoing learning and professional development
  • Competitive benefits package

What We’re Looking For

  • Active Registered Nurse
  • Prior research experience (preferred)
  • A collaborative, patient-centered mindset

Why Join Us?

Be part of a positive, mission-driven department that values teamwork, growth, and the difference we make in the lives of families every day.

Job Summary

Provides an opportunity to learn daily and contribute to treatments of the future. Enthusiasm for learning required, along with participation in educating patients, physicians, nurses and other personnel to the research process. Advanced nursing position that involves clinical patient contact, research study coordination and study data management. Must be able to organize complex components of clinical trials, including test ordering, procedure scheduling and insurance pre-authorization for participants, if applicable.

Clinical skills that may be required include, but not limited to: patient assessment for adverse events and assistance with, or completion of, study related procedures as detailed in the research protocol (ex: injections, phlebotomy, or infusions), within the applicable state scope of practice.

Demonstrate a desire and ability to strictly adhere to all levels of institutional, state and federal regulations and established research protocols, and the ability to collaborate with physician investigators to ensure safe and compliant investigational treatment or intervention and follow-up.

Attend investigator meetings and coordinate pre-study site visits. Monitor enrollment goals and modify recruitment plan as needed. Ensure the completion of all screening, eligibility and enrollment procedures. Work with pharmacy to dispense study articles and provide subject education.

Clarify questions and concerns with the investigator and sponsor regarding enrollment goals, sponsor expectations and study procedures. Review inclusion/exclusion criteria to assure subject eligibility and review with physician investigator. Review study protocol, informed consent form and follow-up procedures with potential study subjects.

Schedule subjects for follow-up visits to review diaries and questionnaires. Ensure appropriate specimen collection, batching and shipping as required. Document and maintain all study-related procedures, processes and events. Document protocol deviations and exemptions and record accurate and timely data. Maintain accurate source documentation for all case report entries and input data for submission.

Required to use appropriate nursing assessment skills to evaluate patient condition in response to study intervention. Collect data regarding patient condition for review by the physician investigator.

Prepare case report forms and source documents for sponsor review. Abstract data from medical records, clinic, consultation and referral notes for preparation of study forms and flow sheets.

Communicate effectively with subjects, research team, Institutional Review Board (IRB) and sponsor representatives.

Occasional local travel between sites and student supervision may be required.

Qualifications

Graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred, including, but not limited to, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).

Currently holds an unencumbered RN license with the State Board of Nursing where the practice of nursing is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state. Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications.

Benefits

Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org .

Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

  • Req Number: R-0272674
  • Job Function: Research
  • Featured: No

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Requirements

  • Graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred, including, but not limited to, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).
  • Currently holds an unencumbered RN license with the State Board of Nursing where the practice of nursing is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state. Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Voluntary benefits
  • Company paid benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employee perks

Place

City
Fargo, North Dakota
Median rent
$946/mo

rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024

Local household income
$66,998/yr

all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024

Metro price level
9% below the national average

Fargo area index 90.9, where 100 is the national average.

Fargo hugs the Red River where the Plains begin, its revived Broadway corridor anchored by the Fargo Theatre's art-deco marquee. Your RN salary goes further here—the cost-of-living index sits at 90.9, about 9% below the national average—in a city whose subarctic winters build the kind of neighborly grit you can feel on every block.

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Approximate location in Fargo, ND. · © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap· Open the live map

Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.

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