The Professional Role and Job Scope of Clinical Research Nurse
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Huang, Hahn-Shin
Abstract
Clinical Research Nurses (CRNs) is a new nursing role for nurses and there are many unclear job scopes. The purpose of my research is in order to setting up the professional role and job scope of Clinical Research Nurse in Taiwan.
There were two steps in my study. First, I used the way of systematic review to find papers, which discussed about the professional role and job scope of CRNs, to appraisal it. Inclusion criteria of papers were 1) To discuss about the professional role and job scope of CRNs, 2) The research population were CRNs or Clinical Research Coordinators (CRCs), 3) Papers which published by Chinese or English with full text. Exclusion criteria of papers were 1) These papers were discussing nurse researchers, 2) The research population were not CRNs or CRCs, 3) Papers which did not publish in Chinese or English words or I could not got full text.
I used PubMed (1950s- 2011), MEDLINE via Ovid online (1951-2011), CINAHL (1983-2011), and Airiti Library as my database. By using key words to search these databases, there were 61 related articles for me to appraisal it and I selected 58 articles for questionnaire. After extracting the clinical roles and job scopes for each period of clinical trials, I set up four parts on my questionnaire: before clinical trial start, during clinical trial, after clinical trial finish, professional role development issue of CRNs. Then, I invited three experts to make face validity and 23 experts to do the content validity for my questionnaire.
Second, I used two rounds Modify Delphi Method to know the consensus of the professional role and job scope of CRNs. There were 23 experts in my study, including principle investigators, clinical research nurses, clinical research associates, registered nurses.
After finishing the Modify Delphi Method, I convened the expert consensus meetings to check my questionnaire and they divided CRNs into three levels (Level 1~ Level 3) by their ability. Then, I invited 35 experts to review the questionnaire and assessed whether the three level classification were appropriate.
In the future, we will use these results for setting up the professional role and job scope for CRNs. Base on the results, hospital and department of nursing will use it to development the training program for CRNs.
Subjects
Clinical Research Nurse
Role function
Job Scope
Systematic Review
Modify Delphi Method
Type
thesis
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