NIH hosts 3rd Annual International Association of Clinical Research Nurses

Episode # 71
Uploaded: September 28, 2011
Running Time: 02:22

CROWN: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.

NIH will host the International Association of Clinical Research Nurses annual meeting Nov. 16 – 18th. It is the second year that the campus has hosted the event. Dr. Clare Hastings, Chief Nursing Officer at the NIH Clinical Center, says events like these are about bringing together a specialty community – the clinical research nurses.

HASTINGS: One of the things that people recognize when they come to this meeting -- nurses in clinical research -- is that they have finally found an organization that represents them.

CROWN: This year’s theme is “Mapping the Future for Clinical Research Nursing,” which emphasizes a core agenda item of the group which is to further define the scope of their professional specialty, says association president Shaunagh Browning, who is also a Nurse Manager Georgetown Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science.

BROWNING: Even the hospitals we work in don’t understand us. This is really helping organizations outside the Clinical Center to understand what a clinical research nurse does and what we bring to the clinical research process.

CROWN: Attendees of this year’s meeting can expect both national and international panelists, as well as breakout sessions that focus on important issues affecting the clinical research nursing community.

BROWNING: There’s so much wealth of information that’s brought from the organization to this meeting that we can all take back pieces of that to our own organization and begin to apply that to our own clinical practice,  no matter what your level…if you are a manager, to a bedside nurse, to a study coordinator in the industry.

HASTINGS: Putting out a conference like this draws people in and begins to extend the network, so you can say, “Oh, you’re involved with clinical research. I didn’t even realize someone from that practice setting even existed. So let me tell you about what we do and let’s hear about what you do.”

CROWN: For more information about clinical research nursing, visit the Clinical Center online online at http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov. From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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