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Clinical Research Nurse

Position Series/number: Nurse Series, 0610
Grade Scale: GS-9 - 15, Title 42


Job Description

Clinical Research Nurses at the NIH work with multidisciplinary teams providing and directing nursing care in a research environment.  Clinical Research Nurses are involved in new or unique clinical research and treatment programs, utilizing advanced assessment skills to identify patient care problems, formulate patient care plans and continually revise plans to adjust to changes in complex and unstable patients under routine and emergent conditions. They provide expert professional nursing care to critically ill patients and make critical evaluations to develop and implement new nursing procedures and protocols in conjunction with accepted standards of care.  The CRN must possess professional knowledge of a wide range of nursing concepts, principles, and practices to perform highly specialized nursing assignments as well as knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. 

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