- Under supervision, run experiments, assays, and record results
- Read and follow experimental protocols (May include animal handling, tissue culture, etc.)
- Compile and communicate results to supervisor
- Follow University safety protocols (may include use of combustibles, radioactivity, toxic material, and/or carcinogenics)
- Perform calculations involving molarity, % solutions, and serial dilutions
- Prepare and operate equipment in experimental procedures
- May include blood gas analyzer, centrifuge, pH meter, spectrophotometer, autoclave, scintillation counter, electrophoresis unit, analytical balance, etc.
- Maintain and repair equipment according to manufacturer and university guidelines.
- Ensure Laboratory is prepared for experiments
- Maintain inventories,
- Maintain sterile conditions as required
- Prepare reagents
- Clean equipment.
- Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities
- Builds and Maintains Relationships:
- Communicates Effectively:
- Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service
- Solves Complex Problems:
- Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards
- Ensures Continuous Improvement:
- Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide highquality work/service
- Stewards Organizational Resources:
- Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact daytoday operations by offering suggestions to enhance them
- Applies Technology:
- Adapts to Change:
Research Assistant 1 - Nashville, United States - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Description
Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
Organization:
Infectious Disease - Admin 30
Job Summary:
Provide, under direct supervision, support for specified research projects; collect, assess, and communicate data/results. Assist in general laboratory operation and inventory.
Department Summary:
The Department of Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases is dedicated to enhancing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases through discovery and application of new knowledge that is integrated with the mentorship of trainees to become the next generation of national leaders in the field.
The division's mission is enhanced by our strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, social and intellectual diversity, commitment to lifelong self-learning and professionalism.
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
Our Academic Enterprise is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University and integral role in the School of Medicine, Vanderbilt Health cultivates distinguished research and educational programs to advance a clinical enterprise that provides compassionate and personalized care and support for millions of patients and family members each year.
World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.
Aligning with Vanderbilt Health's Strategic Directions , the Office of Research provides shared research resources, administrative expertise and professional guidance to enable the trans-disciplinary environment and highly collaborative culture that advances discovery and training for all the research faculty, trainees, students and staff.
Core Accountabilities:
Organizational Impact:
Delivers job responsibilities that impact own job area/team with some guidance.
Problem Solving/ Complexity of work:
Uses existing procedures, research and analysis to solve standard job related problems that may require some judgement
Breadth of Knowledge:
Requires subject matter knowledge within a professional area to meet job requirements
Team Interaction:
Individually contributes to project/ work teams.
Core Capabilities
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Supporting Colleagues:
Delivering Excellent Services:
Ensuring High Quality:
Regulatory Requirements:
Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department
Managing Resources Effectively :
Fostering Innovation:
Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.
Position Qualifications:
Responsibilities:
Certifications :
Work Experience :
Relevant Work Experience
Experience Level :
Less than 1 year
Education :
Bachelor's
Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and to the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.
EOE/AA/Women/Minority/Vets/Disabled