Research Nurse Coordinator

Baptist Health; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Lexington, KY is seeking a Research Nurse Coordinator to join our team. Under limited supervision, you will coordinate patient care within IRB-approved protocols and work with investigators, physicians, radiologists, surgeons, and pathologists to ensure protocol compliance and patient safety.

You will assess patients for changes in condition, adverse events, and medication use, thoroughly documenting findings.

Qualifications

• BSN with two years' experience.
• In lieu of BSN, ADN with 5 years’ experience is acceptable.
• Current RN License

Responsibilities

• Coordinate patient care under limited supervision per IRB-approved protocol requirements.
• Collaborate with investigators, physicians, radiologists, sponsors and research staff.
• Assess patients for changes in condition, adverse events, concomitant medications, and protocol compliance; document findings thoroughly.
• Develop and educate treatment plans and order sets; support nursing education for clinical trials.
• Coordinate pre-study activities and feasibility completion with research management and investigators.

Skills

Clinical coordination

IRB protocol understanding

Team collaboration

Education

BSN

ADN

Job description

Summary Job Description: Baptist Health is looking for a Research Nurse Coordinator to join our team in Lexington, KY! Under limited supervision, coordinates patient care in compliance with local, state and federal guidelines and regulations through IRB approved protocol requirements. The research nurse coordinator works collaboratively with the patient, other research staff, support system, referring physicians’ staff, radiologists, surgeons, supporting physician, pathologists, pathway staff and sponsors. In collaboration with the investigators, assess patients for changes in condition, adverse events, concomitant medication use, protocol compliance, response to study drug, and thoroughly document findings. The research nurse is also responsible for the development and education of treatment plans and/or order sets and nursing education when applicable to a clinical trial. Completion of study feasibilities and coordination of various pre-study activities are facilitated by the research nurse coordinator in collaboration with research management, staff and investigator.

Qualifications: BSN with two years' experience. In lieu of BSN, ADN with 5 years’ experience is acceptable. Current RN License

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug‑free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post‑offer, pre‑employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES: Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll‑free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.