Employment Opportunities

Registered Nurse/LPN / Coordinator-Penticton & Powell River BC

Closing Date: January 20, 2012

Manager's Position Title: Site Manager

Reporting Position Title: none

General Description:

Coordinators carry out and document procedures required in the Clinical Study protocols under the direction of a Site Manager. Personal traits must include extreme attention to detail and accuracy, well organized, able to follow directions and  be extremely personable, caring and service oriented team players.

Results

To recruit and retain patients through the start-up, recruiting and retention systems of the company to meet and exceed sponsor and patient needs.

Work Schedule

Coordinators may be required to work evenings, weekends, extended hours as well as irregular work weeks specifically during heavy recruiting or audit times.

Main Task and Responsibilities

Strategic Work

Coordinators perform following strategic work:

Participate in Daily Site Huddle and Weekly Site Meetings in order to contributes to problem solving and the continuous improvement in achieving site and corporate goals. ; Always watching for ways to improve service to patients, monitors and sponsors and brings suggestions to Site Manager

Tactical Work

Coordinators perform following tactical work:

- Monitor Visits
- ICF’s
- MMSE
- Budget assessments
- Protocol reviews
- ADAS cog
- Study specific procedures as indicated in protocol
- Inclusion Exclusion criteria
- All tasks listed under Research Assistant position
- Inventory: order, receive, store, archive, quarantine and return or destroy drug, study supplies, recruiting materials, and lab supplies
- Monitor temperatures of drug, biological samples, lab kits.
- Database: enter and retrieve study, patient, sponsor, or supplier information accurately
- Labs: prepare, store and ship biological samples as directed in study protocols and lab manuals
- Assure expired lab kits quarantined and destroyed
- Complete CRF’s from source documents
- Prescreen Patients
- Interview patients for Demographics
- Take blood pressures, pulse and respiratory rates
- Take weight, height and waist circumference
- Perform ECG
- Drug accountability
- Coordinate patient appointments with doctor, nurses, coordinators or outside services
- Interview patients for Medical Histories
- Provide and document patient reimbursements
- Interview and follow procedure for AE’s
- Interview and follow procedure for SAE’s
- Makes necessary appointments with doctors, labs, patients, raters etc.
- Maintain all files and records in meticulous order and appropriate completeness
- Scheduled equipment calibration
- Queries
- Maintain annual CV and license file for site
- Complete sponsor feasibility questionnaires with the appropriate input from physicians

Requirements

RN/LPN ; ACRP Certification within 2.5 years

Essential Skills

- Team player
- Computer literate
- Patience and determination in achieving team goals
- Extremely neat and well organized
- Transcription accuracy
- Patient care
- Ability to follow instructions and follow up as appropriate
- Service, pleaser orientation
- Dependable
- Oral communication

Thinking Skills

- Significant use of memory
- Significant sensitivity to patients and sponsors’ needs
- Finding information
- Working with others
- Goal focus

Quality

The quality must be consistent with Best in Canada goal and the Position will always look to use Best Practices which are continuously being improved. All tasks will be streamlined so that tasks are completed using the most efficient methods and tools.

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