Re: Clinical research nurse at NIH?
I work as a CRN at NIH, and we take care of the inpatients, if you are looking for a postion without bedside pt care, you would need to apply for a position as a research nurse for one of the individual institutes. I enjoy my work there, you use the same skills you use in a regular hospital. However in my experience at NIH, I have not used many of the technical skills that I used at other hospitals, our patients tend to be less sick and more stable. But it can be stressful monitoring pts receiving phase I drugs, chemotherapy and biotherapies. We do a lot of transfusions, drawing labs, serial testing, pt education. Less of placing PIVs, foleys, NGTs, etc. Email me if you have any more questions
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