research study?

[mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN]

Anyone participate in a research study? It was so bizarre. My husband heard a radio ad that was asking for people to participate in a diabetes/diabetes drug study and, long story short, I fit the criteria.

It is a nationwide effort and part of it happens to be at the facility I work at.

Just curious if anyone has done anything like this as a nurse.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I've done this a few times. I work at a teaching hospital affiliated with a medical school, so there are TONS of research study opportunities in this community. Plus, I work in research myself, so I feel like it's a professional responsibility to give back. Some are fun, some are inconvenient. The inconvenient or really invasive ones tend to pay better. I've done a study where they take serial rectal/lady partsl swabs(2, total) to test for a specific bacterial (paid $200) and another one where they did an insulin clamp, did a muscle biopsy in my thigh, and a fat biopsy in my abdomen. I think that one paid about $250. I was going to do another one that paid $800 that required overnight hospital stays on two different occasions, as well as a very specific diet for one week before the hospital stays (they provide the food) but I was never able to get the hospital stays they had available with my work schedule, so I had to withdraw.

[mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN]

EEK! Mine will not entail anything like you have done! Being Type 2, having a child with Type 1 and interested in, maybe, going the CDE route, I thought it would be good experience. It is a long-term study.

Thanks for sharing!!!

[klone, MSN, RN]

My young son has asthma and I came very close to enrolling him in a year-long asthma/URI study (paid $800, I think), but he was not eligible because he didn't have the chicken pox vaccine.