Psychiatric RN (Registered Nurse)

Title: Registered Nurse (RN)-Psych RN

Location: WRN

Job Description:

ERG is a leading U.S. based, privately held, independent clinical research site company, and provider of clinical development services with an expertise in early and late stage neuroscience drug development. With 22 wholly owned clinical sites and 5 affiliated sites, we conduct in-patient and out-patient phase I-IV clinical research studies. ERG has 340+ in-patient beds, a large and growing database of patients suffering from mental illness, neurological disorders, sleep disorders, addictions, Acute and Chronic Pain, diabetes and other illnesses as well as normal healthy volunteers who participate in trials for the advancement of medicine. With access to over 32 million patients/subjects and 5000 + completed trials, ERG continues to grow its capabilities and expand into indications where there are tremendous unmet medical needs in the United States and globally.

The Registered Nurse will perform a variety of activities related to the clinical area, including medical support systems and assisting medical personnel with study participants care duties as assigned. Incumbents work under supervision of clinical staff, performing routine duties and primarily, referring questions and problems to the Clinical Research Coordinator assigned to study or the PI.

Responsibilities:

• Performs study events and collects clinical data as per protocol requirements.
• Administers study drug as assigned
• When assigned, serve as Pharmacy Staff
• Discusses and administers Informed Consent Form, as assigned (dependent on site)
• Notifies appropriate staff of abnormal results while collecting data, adverse events, or unusual incidents
• Assures minimal discomfort for study participants while performing all duties
• Has working knowledge of telemetry monitoring and interpretation of tracings
• Maintains safety and well-being of study participants during assigned shift
• Understands all functions of telemetry monitoring machine
• Maintains skills in the use of ECG machine, taking accurate vital signs and IV insertion
• Keeps apprised of all new OSHA, BLS, ACLS and GCP/ICH rules, regulations, and procedures
• Must be capable of providing advanced life support emergency medical services, including conducting of and interpreting ECGs, electrical interventions to support cardiac functions, performing advanced endotracheal intubations in airway management and relief of pneumothorax and administering of appropriate intravenous fluids and drugs under direction of a designated physician
• Maintains knowledge and understanding of SOP for data collection

Skills and Qualifications:

• Education and experience
  • Licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the applicable state with ACLS Certification and a minimum of one year experience as an RN 
  • Experience on in an acute psychiatric setting is required
  • Clinical Research experience preferred but not required
  • ACLS certification required
• Requirements
  • Understands regulatory requirements, as well as Good Clinical Practices (GCP) and International Conference of Harmonization (ICH) guidelines.
  • Knowledgeable in medical terminology
  • Good organizational and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication skills (interpersonal, written, verbal)
  • Basic computer skills to include Word, Excel, as well as proprietary applications unique to the clinical research industry (such as RealTime)

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