CRC nurses are an integral part of successful implementation of research protocols and are experienced in caring for patients from diverse medical services, such as cardiology, endocrinology, oncology, immunology, infectious disease, neurology, nephrology, and psychiatry.
The CRC delivers excellent care to all participants and ensures research visits are as comfortable and safe as possible.
CRC nurses can assist with:
- Body measurements such as height, weight, or waist/hip measurements
- Collecting frequent times blood samples via an indwelling intravenous (IV) catheter
- Cardiac monitoring via EKG testing or continuous telemetry monitoring
- Medication administration and monitoring for side effects
- Simple blood draws
- Teaching related to study activities, medication, side effects or home specimen collection
- Point of care testing including blood sugar, HGBA1C, and pregnancy testing
- Vital sign monitoring (temperature, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, oxygen levels)
- Invasive testing and procedures with or without conscious sedation
CRC Nursing FAQs
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- Specimen collection (blood, urine, stool, sputum, cheek and nasal swab, wound fluid, saliva)
- Bedside testing (UPT, urine dipstick, Hgb A1C, Hgb)
- 12-Lead EKG, continuous telemetry, 6 minute walk test
- Basic spirometry, oxygen saturation
- Assist MD with procedures (bronchoscopy, biopsy, lumbar puncture, conscious sedation monitoring)
- iDXA scan, waist, hip, and SAD measurements, weight, height, vital signs
- Medication administration (Oral, IV, IM, SQ)
- Administer questionnaires, participant teaching
- Create source documents for data collection
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Yes, as long as the order is in IHIS and ready to be released. Please arrange this ahead of time with lead nurse an/or scheduler.
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After the CRC Staff has a copy of the Consent and MD Orders and all of your coordinator specific tasks are complete, we can handle the remaining part of the visit. We must have a current way to contact you in case of questions or participants needs. Immediately following the visit, we can email the flowsheet/source document to you, so that you have information for the CRF.
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No. All scheduling must be handled by the study coordinator.
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Two lead nurses will be assigned to your protocol when it is initiated at the CRC. This is who you should contact for any questions or changes in your protocol and they will relay the information to the rest of the nursing staff.
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We have a badged storage room where you can store supplies for your study if needed. Company-provided equipment such as EKG machines, laptops, etc. can be stored and kept plugged in in this area. Refer to the lab for storage of lab supplies.