Coordinator - scheduling appointments?

This sounds more like an assistant role - RNs are too valuable, knowledgable and expensive to pay to chat on a phone. Coordinators heaviest job is usually enrolling subjects and collecting data - maybe you make followup appointments after a visit,? That is more reasonable. Coordinators are really the people who keep a research project moving. Physicians do not make rounds in the hospital or wherever looking for potential subjects - coordinators do - that is why nurses work well, they know the environment, physiology, they can understand the inclusion and exclusion criteria and requirements of a protocol. Coordinators chase paper - consents, subjects, IRB docs and federal docs. The key is you must be motivated. Yes, there are a thousand tasks - a good study looks for high quality people who can deliver and multi task -and they pay for those people. Be wary of being offered PAR or slightly below what you made as a staff nurse. Never buy into the well you don't work shifts etc...routine.

In my experience of scheduling patients, I always explained all appointments were time-sensitive and usually that was explained up front when the patient was approached with an informed consent. So I didn't have a huge problem getting patients scheduled. With that sais there will always be a patient who might be more difficult to schedule. Protocoal should always come first, and we encouraged strongly that protcol must be followed.