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Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named to the Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals 2025-2026” rankings . At Cedars-Sinai, we take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees. Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff reflect the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing in this role?

The Research Nurse I provides hands-on treatment, monitoring and follow-up clinical analysis of patients participating in clinical trials. Ensures adherence to federal and regulatory requirements in providing direct patient nursing care within the context of supporting clinical trial study implementation. Works collaboratively with the Prinical Investigator, physicians and other research staff in providing hands-on care in triaging, documenting vitals, administering investigational drugs or interventions, and providing clinical educational services to participants and their families. May assist with coordinating aspects of research, including interactions with research staff and study participants, data compilation, and patient recruitment/logistics.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

+ Provides direct patient nursing care to research participants. Interacts with research participants to provide nursing care, administration of research interventions and specimen collection.

+ Provides clinical education services to research participants and family regarding study participation, participants current clinical condition, and or disease process.

+ Monitors research participant and reports potential adverse events to a member of the research team.

+ Records research data (vital signs, research compound administered, participant responses) in approved source document (medical record, data collection sheet).

+ Triages patient by phone and provides clinical information to the patient. May also coordinate patient visit to follow up on clinical issues and provide necessary care.

+ Assists with recruitment and logistics of study participants.

+ Completes and documents study participant enrollment, assessment/reassessment, education, and follow-up activities.

+ Performs and coordinates study participant interventions as required.

+ Serves as a liaison between study participants and PI or other research staff.

+ Prepares data spreadsheets for Investigator and/or department.

+ Completes Case Report Forms.

+ Assists with data compilation and documentation

+ May process, ship, track or otherwise handle research specimens.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements:

+ Associate's Degree / College Diploma in Nursing required

+ Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred

Experience Requirements:

+ One (1) year of clinical nursing experience required

+ One (1) year of research experience preferred

License & Certification Requirements:

+ California State RN License required upon hire

+ Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required upon hire

**Req ID** : 12293

**Working Title** : Research Nurse I - Emergency Dept - Torbati Lab - Full-Time, On-Site, Evenings

**Department** : Research - ED

**Business Entity** : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

**Job Category** : Nursing

**Job Specialty** : Research

**Overtime Status** : NONEXEMPT

**Primary Shift** : Evening

**Shift Duration** : 8 hour

**Base Pay** : $36.65 - $54.98

Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.