Nursing Development Specialist

Full-Time

Essential Functions

• Develops, designs, and implements clinical research projects related to area of focus. Works directly with the Research Director and Research scientist regarding selection of research topics, objectives and procedures for study design.
• Implements all aspects of research from protocol design, study implementation, data analysis and interpretation, grant writing, teaching, publication, and presentation at meetings.
• Writes manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Prepares abstracts for presentation of results at local, national, and international scientific meetings.
• Organizes work according to priority of the ongoing research studies in the time necessary to complete procedures.
• Participates in development of newsletters, tip cards, skill packs, trainings, and other dissemination mechanism.
• Participates in and leads the writing of grant applications and intramural funding.
• Assists in training staff, clinical fellows, and residents.
• Develops research database, monitors data quality, performs statistical analyses of data, and interprets results.

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