Concentric Methods is seeking a Certified Nurse Practitioner to join our team in Bethesda, MD in support of the NIH.

Responsibilities:

• Prescribes and recommends drugs or other forms of treatment under the direction of a physician.
• Initiate and coordinate visits, drug orders, laboratory procedures, consultations, and treatments for patients based on clinical needs or protocol requirements.
• Monitor patients for toxicities of treatment and other possible adverse reactions to drugs or procedures that may require emergency treatment or revision of the prescribed regimen.
• Administer and adjust trial medication under the guidance of a physician.
• Obtains medical histories.
• Take histories and perform physical examinations or perform daily progress evaluations for inpatients or follow-up visits for outpatients and document appropriately.
• Review patient charts to collect relevant clinical data and analyze trends in patient responses collected through structured and semi-structured interviews with patients and patient's families.
• Perform intake and preliminary evaluation of potential subjects through e-interviewing, review of medical records, completion of safety screening, consultation with treating professionals, and with medical staff.
• Screen healthy subjects and patients and interview subjects to obtain social and medical history and medication history.
• Performs physical exams.
• Perform physical examinations of adult patients with complex and difficult multi-system diseases, enter results into patient charts, and address any concerns that arise from research participants following completion of examination.
• Perform comprehensive medical histories research, and document findings per institutional and protocol standards.
• Perform clinical data recording and medical chart entries manually and electronically within standard applications and software programs using the appropriate format and following institutional and protocol standards.
• Assess the patient's general health status through observation and appropriate screening procedures and documents Assesses and tracks illnesses of patients and supports overall diagnosis and clinical research.
• Work with staff on the evaluation, treatment, and monitoring of research subjects in inpatient and outpatient settings and ensure patient's and families' ongoing understanding of the clinical and research processes.
• Assess patient care needs such as acute and non-acute clinical problems and toxicities.
• Participate in patient rounds and protocol meetings and provide comprehensive patient management support.
• Participate in research group meetings and in the decision-making process regarding patient inclusion in the studies, diagnoses, and patient and family management throughout.
• Participate in clinical conferences, and support in-depth documentation through written progress notes, summaries, and clinical research forms.
• Orders laboratory tests and interprets results for research or medical staff and patients.
• Maintain individual patient schedules throughout the visit as liaison with nursing and other evaluating staff.
• Enter medical orders and review lab and other diagnostic tests and laboratory studies test results for normal and abnormal findings with guidance from a physician or collaboration with other staff.
• Interpret data and determine normal and abnormal findings that merit immediate clinical action.
• Provide comprehensive documentation of procedures conducted, tests administered, results, and findings and present to researchers and medical staff.
• Ensures proper illness and injury care, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
• Provide clinical coverage of clinical and research procedures and promote the safety of patients over time.
• Communicate and collaborate with the multidisciplinary research team to ensure that patient management strategies are successful in meeting patient care and research needs.
• Provide verbal and written responses to patient and family inquiries and patient and family counseling and health education.

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