JOB SUMMARY
The Clinical Research Aide is responsible for maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for subjects staying overnight at Clinilabs. .
REQUIRED EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail and task completion
- Flexible work schedule depending on clinic needs
- Conflict resolution skills
- Ability to multi-task and adapt to change
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Complete change-of-shift documentation between day/evening shift workers and nighttime shift workers for clinical trial subjects on the clinical research unit.
- Perform 15-minute checks of subjects throughout the night shift
- Provide subjects with meals and snacks, when allowed.
- Interact with subjects in common areas for the purpose of recreation and staff engagement (e.g., games, movies)
- Dispense approved medication from a special dispensary locker upon physicians’ orders.
- Working closely with patients on a daily basis, observe not only the obvious changes in a patient’s physical condition but the subtleties of their emotional state.
- Remain awake on the night shift in order to complete clerical and general support activities (e.g., printing, copying, filing, stuffing envelopes, cleaning, organizing).
- Communications with staff
- Adherence to corporate policies and procedures
- Taking and delivering messages
- Other duties as assigned
TRAVELING
Between Corporate New York site and New Jersey sites, as needed.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Remember the Three Princes of Serendip who went out looking for treasure? They didn’t find what they were looking for, but they kept finding things just as valuable. That’s serendipity, and our business [drugs] is full of it.
Drugs don’t work in patients who don’t take them.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Advances in drug development have led to greater improvement in the quality of human life than advances in all other fields combined.
The cures we want aren’t going to fall from the sky. We have to get ladders and climb up and get them.
There is so much more to be done; the patients are waiting.
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Good information is the best medicine.
I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy.
The greatest joy in life is to accomplish. It is the getting, not the having. It is the giving, not the keeping.
I have no ideology. My ideology is health.
I must say, I spend a lot of my time these days trying to persuade people that controlled trials are the only way to get information that’s reliable about drugs.
Without drugs, physicians would struggle to find relevance, and patients would suffer without hope.
If you think compliance is expensive, try non-compliance.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.