Nurse (Clinical Research)

Duties

Serve a leader in an area of clinical practice and direct the delivery of nursing care to a specific population of patients.
Expertly utilize the nursing process and advanced nursing skills to assess, plan, perform and evaluate patient care for specific cohorts of patients participating in biomedical research.
Develop plans to address patient’s comprehensive needs including education, safety, comfort and spirituality.
Coordinate and initiate internal and external referral and the multidisciplinary care of research patients.
Plan and evaluate care including establishing policies, guidelines and priorities.
In collaboration with supervisor, research and resolve uncommon situations in patient care that require creativity and innovation.
Investigate the etiology of discrepancies or unusual sentinel events and provides feedback and recommendations for resolution/problem prevention.
Assess complex and sensitive health education needs in individual patient populations with like conditions, protocols or other characteristics.

Requirements

Conditions of employment
U.S. Citizenship requirement or proof of being a U.S. National must be met by closing date.
Employment is subject to the successful completion of a background investigation, verification of qualifications, completion of onboarding forms, submission of required documents, and any other job-related requirement before or after appointment.
Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Males born after December 31, 1959 must be registered with the Selective Service.
Position may require selectees to pass a pre-employment medical examination.
Position has a positive Nursing education and Licensure Examination Requirement.
Position requires Education - please provide transcripts.
This position requires weekend hours, rotational shifts, holiday hours.

Qualifications
In order to meet the Basic Qualification Requirements for a Nurse (Clinical Research), GS-0610, you must have: