Clinical Trials Nurse - Leukemia (NYC)

Company overview

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe. 

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Job details

Clinical Trials Nurse – Leukemia (New York City)

We Are:

Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Magnet®-recognized Department of Nursing is made up of almost 5,000 highly skilled nursing personnel, including more than 600 nurse practitioners, 40 clinical nurse specialists, and 32 nurse educators. All are dedicated to delivering expert care to people with cancer and their families. Are you ready to join our dynamic Nursing Team?

• http://careers.mskcc.org/nursing/

You Are:

• Willing to take action 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 maintain 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 Nurse-Physician based Ambulatory Care Practice Models
• Facilitate the 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 Leukemia.
• 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 the principal investigator to review new protocols from a nursing perspective and participate in a 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.
• Collaborate closely with members of the clinical research team across the MSK enterprise to manage protocol patients and coordinate care

You Need:

• New York State RN license and BSN
• Three years of clinical nursing experience
• 1.5 – 2 years of oncology experience preferred
• Clinical research nursing experience preferred
• Proficiency with clinical and office software (Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel)
• BCLS

Hours: 4 x 10 hour shifts Monday - Friday

Location: David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care (NYC 74^th Street).