Research Nurse - Multidisciplinary

Location: 217 S. Madison St, Traverse City MI 

Schedule:  Monday to Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 

More Than Just Care, It’s Community  

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.  

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You  

• Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance. 

• Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.  

• Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges. 

• Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings  

A Day in the Life 

• The Clinical Research Nurse on the Multidisciplinary team assists in the conduct of clinical trials in a variety of therapeutic areas including neurology, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery among others. A clinical nurse provides patient care.  A research nurse cares for their patient, but follows a research protocol using very specific timelines, assessments and evaluations.

• Each day is different, but a typical day will include collaborating with coworkers and off-site project team members, extracting data from multiple sources, providing education to and communicating with nursing and medical staff as well as ancillary teams with a dash of research directed patient care mixed in. No two days are the same, no two studies are the same.  

Tasks and processes of a clinical research nurse:

• Review/screen new and established patients for eligibility for clinical trials
• Approach providers about the studies for review
• Facilitate the informed consent process and ensure regulatory approvals are in place
• Communicate with providers on patient study status
• Collaborate with investigators for treatment plans and orders
• Work with ancillary departments such as lab, pharmacy, etc. to facilitate research protocol compliance
• Facilitate/collaborate with clinical staff to make sure patient visits, surgical procedures or treatments include protocol required care
• Managing non-clinical study elements – examples:• Special testing
• Specimen collection, processing and shipping
• Data collection and submission
• Safety reporting
• Administering questionnaires, assessments and collection of patient reported outcomes

• Participate in monitoring and auditing activities
• Maintain open communication with the patient throughout their participation in trial activities

• Your work will make a difference! As a research nurse, you will be a part of the foundation that drives advances in medical science.

What’s Required  

• Current Registered Nurse license, in good standing with State of Michigan Board of Nursing required.
• 3 years recent clinical experience required.

Are you Munson Material? Apply today! 

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.