Research Nurse IV, LPN / LVN, Clinical Trials

Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome. - Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results.

Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions. - Works on budgeting and financing by: contributing to drafting proposals for large-scale contracts, including reviewing and summarizing literature; and helping support the development and justification of budgets for internally and externally funded complex projects. - Conducts and leads clinical research by: reviewing, designing, and collecting clinical trials data; leveraging an advanced knowledge of source data and the tools leveraged for analyzing, and interpreting clinical data; leveraging advanced knowledge when providing input on the design of clinical trials, studies, and interventions at the site-level; developing innovative clinical research protocols and other processes of large-scale clinical trials; preparing, submitting, and/or collaborating with others to ensure correct compilation of study documentation sent to regulatory bodies (e.g., IRB) for review and approval prior to implementation; may also be responsible for executing clinical trial activities (e.g., informed consent process, lab support and processing, pharmaceutical documentation data, sample processing, adverse event assessment process); and may be involved in various research lab operations (e.g., biological specimen collection, including patient preparation, labeling, handling, preservation or fixation, processing or preparation, and transportation and storage of specimens). - Facilitates research compliance by: providing subject-matter advice for clinical trial applications to ensure compliance and consistency with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations, and reviewing and providing input on KP compliance policies and procedures; identifying compliance and/or quality issues and developing corrective action plans, escalating as necessary; developing and implementing updates for compliance-monitoring/audit systems and documentation; contributing to the implementation and development of advanced approaches to analyze risk-management data and making recommendations to mitigate potential risk; driving the implementation of research protocols, procedures, and guidance to ensure confidentiality, privacy, and security of clinical research data; and leveraging in-depth research expertise to provide guidance to investigators and other key stakeholders to ensure compliance with IRB approved protocols and local and federal guidelines.