Outpatient Visit Research Nurse I - Dallas, TX

Company Name

Fortrea

Job Description

As one of the largest Clinical Research Organizations in the world, we have four Early Phase Clinical Research Units in the UK and US.

We are currently seeking an Outpatient Visit (OPV) Research Nurse to lead and support our Clinical Pharmacology Start-up team in initiating Early Phase clinical trials for our clients with maximum speed and efficiency.

This is a full-time, Monday - Friday (5:30am-3:30pm), rotating weekends, office-based position in Dallas, TX.

If you join us, you will work with some of the world´s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies in a vital stage of clinical development: establishing the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of a new drug. Your nursing skills are essential to us providing healthy volunteer and patient care and monitoring during a trial and ensuring the ethical conduct of the study.

Many nurses are drawn to their profession because of its direct impact on patient care. If this is your case, you will not miss that working in Phase 1 trials. While allowing you to have a close face-to-face relationship with participants, and as you continue to practice your clinical skills and knowledge, you´ll be involved with the latest medical technologies and treatments, witnessing their development firsthand. When the drug you worked with gets approved, you know you´ll touch many patient´s lives around the world.

What You Will Do

Learn. And grow. No two days will be the same; and this is because in the clinic you will be exposed to a wide variety of Therapeutic Indications and study types (ascending dose, first-in-human, food effect, drug to drug interactions, etc.).

Other Key Responsibilities

• Ensure that the dignity, health, safety, and welfare of participants is always given the highest priority.
• Be current with appropriate emergency certifications and company emergency policy and procedures.
• Respond to emergency situations based upon nursing standards.
• Utilize skills, knowledge, nursing diagnosis, and clinical judgement in order to provide a high standard of care for participants in clinical trials.
• Utilize nursing assessment skills to observe participant general well-being and potential adverse events. Document adverse events and take appropriate action as needed.
• Obtain Informed Consent and continue the ICF process by educating, explaining, and informing participants of study procedures.
• Administer investigational compounds (inclusive of parenteral) to participants according to the protocol and applicable regulations.
• Perform study related activities such as cannulation, telemetry, holters, vital signs, ECGs, venipuncture.
• All other duties as needed or assigned.

YOU NEED TO BRING…

• Associate’s degree or BS degree in nursing with current licensure in applicable state.
• Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.
• Paramedic, EMT, LVN, LPN or RN, preferred.
• CPR/AED certified.
• ACLS-certified preferred upon entry to role. ACLS certification be gained in role if not yet certified.
• 0-1 year of related experience.

Previous Lead Or Charge Nurse Experience Is Strongly Preferred

The important thing for us is you are comfortable working in an environment that is:

• Fast paced: where no deviations from the study protocol are allowed, and not meeting a timeline for even few minutes will create a quality issue.
• Changing priorities constantly asking you to prioritize and adapt on the spot.
• Teamwork and people skills are essential for the study to run smoothly.
• Technology based. We collect our data directly into an electronic environment.

What do you get?

Benefits

Regular, full-time, or part-time employees working 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD (multiple insurance carriers)
• 401(K)
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Employee recognition awards
• Multiple ERG’s (employee resource groups)

Learn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here.