Nurse (Clinical Research) - Phoenix, United States - Department Of Health And Human Services

Description

Summary

This position is located in the Obesity and Diabetes Clinical Research Section (ODCRS), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

This position provides nursing services for research clients undergoing clinical investigation and treatment.

Duties

As a Nurse (Clinical Research) you will:

• Provide comprehensive nursing care specific to clients in a clinical research setting.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate clients by taking into consideration their physical, mental, social, and spiritual and age specific needs.
• Perform complex and intricate procedures related to clinical research practices.
• Evaluate clients self-care behaviors and teaches/counsels/clients/families who have health care needs using demonstrations, handouts, audio-visual aids and other techniques that are age specific.
• Prepare a variety of nursing reports such as the daily nursing report, incident reports, census report, etc.
• Assist the scientific investigator in developing quality control measures for all research patient procedures and tests and laboratory procedures in a particular protocol.