Health Services Research Analyst

Job Summary

This position is based in the Vanderbilt Department of Emergency Medicine Research Division and the Center for Emergency Care and Innovation (CERI). The position will be part of Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) funded Office of Rural Health award and NIH grant that seeks to improve the quality of prehospital emergency cardiac care along with the delivery of emergency telemental health in the emergency department and urgent care clinics.

The HSRA position will have regular conduct with the investigative team, clinicians, patients, and stakeholders. They will be responsible for developing interviewing guides and conducting interviews with participants. They will also assist and perform project management, coordinating interviews, summarizing interviews, and assisting with the coding and analysis of interviews. The HSRA will also help to build and maintain the database associated with this project, working closely with our research team and the other study staff at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS), and assisting project-related IRB/regulatory issues at VUMC and the VA. This will include (but is not limited to): working with REDCap, Excel, and other database programs as appropriate; participating in regular conference calls; reviewing and organizing data for completeness; cleaning data and creating datasets for analysis; providing weekly data reports for the PI and other program staff and faculty to review.

The HSRA will collaborate with fellow team members to coordinate and support workstreams critical to the project's success including practice improvement and transformation, stakeholder and community engagement, and data collection and reporting.

Department/Unit Summary

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Emergency Medicine is a national leader in emergency care research. Led by 8 core faculty and an extensive research infrastructure, we are top leaders in designing innovative ED-based research and are top enrollers in both industry and federally funded studies. Our research staff actively screens patients over 100 hours each week in the emergency departments at VUMC and the Tennessee Valley Hospital. Combined, these Eds see over 100,000 patients each year. To ensure timely enrollment in therapeutic studies, the research faculty are immediately available to assist the student team on a daily basis. For more information, please visit https://vanderbiltem.com/em-research.

SHIFT:

This is a full-time, exempt position, 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday.

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Responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Qualitative program evaluation
  • Use qualitative research skills to lead small to medium-sized program evaluations.
  • May coordinate and conduct interviews, focus groups, or participate in other qualitative data collection
• Preparing data sets, performing basic analyses
  • Working with study investigators and statisticians to determine which quantitative and qualitative data should be included in analyses and compiling data sets for these analyses.
  • Performing basic quantitative and qualitative analyses as possible.
• Project management
  • Assist investigators draft and submit research proposals, data use agreements, and IRB applications. Maintain research credentials for study investigators.
  • Development and management of schedules for proposals and projects.
• Participation in meetings, preparing reports and presentations
  • Attend project meetings, conference calls and monthly staff meetings as required.
  • Present study concepts in group sessions with PIs and study team members
  • Assist investigators with scientific abstract, presentation, and manuscript preparation.
  • Preparing weekly reports for investigators and comprehensive reports for reports to funding agency and other purposes.
• Other related research and programmatic duties as needed

Additional Information

Salary is dependent upon education and experience.

Background screens will be performed and education will be verified prior to employment. Please be prepared to provide required information and/or documentation.

Minimum Requirements:

This position requires a Bachelor's degree and two years of related experience. Master's degree in a related field is preferred. Experience in qualitative and quantitative research, research project management, database management and data analysis is preferred

Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:

• Light Work category requiring exertion up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally and uses negligible amounts of force to move objects.

Movement

• Occasional: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
• Occasional: Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
• Occasional: Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.
• Occasional: Walking: Moving about on foot.
• Occasional: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another
• Occasional: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.
• Frequent: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.
• Frequent: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.
• Continuous: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
• Continuous: Sitting: Remaining in seated position

• Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information
• Continuous: Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature, texture by touch with fingertips.
• Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.
• Continuous: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.