Clinical Trials Nurse - Nassau NY (Ambulatory Outpatient site) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Clinical Trials Nurse - Nassau  N.Y. (Ambulatory Outpatient site)

Hours: Fulltime 10 hour shifts flexed .

We are:

• Providers of compassionate, evidence-based nursing care to Oncology patients and families living with cancer in a healing and innovative environment
• Nursing at  MSKCC

You are:

• Action-oriented and eager to embrace new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• A good decision-maker, with proven success at making timely decisions that maintains high standards of nursing care within the organization.
• Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged, using both formal and informal development
• Approachable and comfortable with diverse groups of people and able to make others comfortable with you.
• An effective communicator, capable of determining how best to reach different audiences and executing communications based on that understanding.
• Capable of building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

     You will:

• Work within a Nurse-Physician based Ambulatory Care Practice Model.   
• Facilitate accrual of appropriate patients to clinical trials.
• Coordinate patient care activities and participate in the conduct of studies for patients enrolled in clinical trials for multiple services including medicine and radiation oncology.
• Educate those patients and their families regarding clinical trials in general and the specifics of the proposed clinical trial.
• Provide as an integral member of the clinical research team to research study participants direct nursing care, patient and study assessments, education and patient/ family support.
• Collaborate with principal investigator to review new protocols from a nursing perspective, and participate in multidisciplinary discussion for approval.
• Implement the standards for research protocols in compliance with regulatory, institutional and external agencies.
• Act as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide continuity of care to patients throughout various stages of treatment on protocol and follow-up.

You need:

• New York State RN license
• Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing
• Three years clinical Nursing experience
• 1.5 – 2 years of oncology experience required
• Clinical research nursing experience preferred but not necessary
• Proficiency with clinical and office software (Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel)
• BCLS

This opportunity requires travel to MSKCC's Manhattan campus and to other MSKCC regional sites for scheduled meetings and training. This position requires coverage to the Commack campus.  

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