Guide to CTRC Nursing Services
How to Access CTRC Nursing Services
for Your Clinical Research Protocol
We are committed to facilitating interdisciplinary clinical investigation and provision of holistic, specialized nursing care within an environment that patients, families, and investigators recognize as exceptional.
Who can benefit from this guide?
This guide was developed for study coordinators, investigators, and research staff who are utilizing CTRC Nursing Services for a clinical research protocol.
What types of information does the guide contain?
This guide contains detailed information about how to set up an inpatient or outpatient research protocol with the OCTRI Clinical & Translational Research Center.
It covers:
- Contact information for CTRC staff
- Information about CTRC inpatient and outpatient locations
- Setting up a study, including a list of procedures and documentation that must be completed before scheduling participant visits
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Explanations of how to schedule participants, prepare physician orders, and coordinate specimen handling
- Guide to managing post-study documentation, including data that goes into Epic

