Access to Nursing Services

When planning a research study, contact Bonnie Falconer (bonnie.falconer@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) to discuss your protocol and nursing services. All studies require IRB and CHPS approval before CHPS services can be provided.

After a CHPS protocol is approved, study teams are required to complete Beacon orders and nursing worksheets.  Submit nursing worksheets promptly as their finalization may take 3 weeks or more.  After the nursing worksheets have been approved, the study team needs to conduct a nursing in-service approximately two weeks prior to the first CHPS visit.  Participants cannot be scheduled for a CHPS visit until after the in-service is completed.

If there are changes in the procedures performed by the CHPS staff after initial approval, the nursing worksheets will need to be revised and re-approved.  If these changes are the result of a protocol modification, IRB approval must be obtained before they are initiated.

For patients to receive services, research participants must be scheduled using the CHPS Scheduler. A study cannot schedule a participant until the in-service has been given.

Study Coordinators are asked to meet study participants at the CHPS at the time of the participant's first appointment to ensure all of the participants questions are answered.