24 Apr ‘Other Duties as Assigned’: The Wide-Ranging Role of the CRC Professional
If “recruiting and screening patients who try new treatments and monitoring and reporting on patient progress” sounds like a reasonable, if skimpy, definition of the duties of a clinical research coordinator (CRC) at a clinical trial site, imagine the surprise of a newly minted CRC who finds themself tasked with exploring a shuttered hospital in search of old research records, or visiting the local jail in hopes of finding participants who have gone missing mid-study.
Dee Tilley, RN, CGRN, CCRC, ACRP-MDP, ACRP-PM, FACRP, a 35-year Clinical Research Nurse at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, has experienced both of those situations, and so many more “other duties as assigned” that she never thought would be part of her work on trials when she first earned her Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (CCRC®) designation from ACRP 18 years ago. Read more…