Job Posting Date: Aug. 29, 2025
Job Description:
This Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) position will support the activities of the School of Nursing Physiological Nursing department, which has a subaward from the University of Pittsburgh “Predicting Patient Instability Noninvasively for Nursing.” This ongoing grant, in place since March 2024, aims to develop a real-time alerting system for cardiorespiratory instability (CRI) by designing a graphical user interface (GUI) that forecasts the incremental risk of CRI.
Our team’s contribution at UCSF serves to provide external site validation of the CRI alerting system to test the generalizability of the CRI prototype algorithms on retrospectively collected data from two step-down telemetry units at UCSF (10L CVT and 14M TCU). This observational study will adjudicate 1,000 CRI alerts predicted by an AI model as true or false. This does not include direct patient contact or affect routine clinical care, and reviews will be conducted in the Physiological Nursing department's research lab.
Job Responsibilities
- Each of the CRI alerts will be reviewed and adjudicated (true versus false) by two independent GSR nurse reviewers (250 alerts per GSR nurse for a total of 1,000 annotations needed)
- The GSR will examine CRI alerts generated from a web-based GUI behind the UCSF firewall, which will display vital signs and ECG waveforms
- Validation of the accuracy of each CRI alert (true versus false) will be performed using UCSF electronic health record data (EHR) located within the APeX/EPIC system
- As this requires access to EHR data and UCSF approved access, the GSR nurse will perform their work at a workstation located at the School of Nursing, Mission Bay campus. A computer with two monitors will be provided to perform the adjudications
- False versus true CRI alerts will be recorded in a short pop-up questionnaire within a REDCap survey
- We anticipate that adjudication of each alert will require approximately 15 minutes, or 80 total hours per GSR nurse
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
- Preference for Registered Nurse at UCSF adult acute care with telemetry experience
- Preference for experience or knowledge of clinical workflow in 10L CVT or 14M TCU
- Familiarity with high acuity clinical documentation charting in APeX/EPIC as well as ECG and vital signs information
- CITI Human Subjects Research training required before beginning evaluations, prior to or upon hire (guided by the Project and Policy Analyst for the ECG Monitoring Research Lab)
Work Location, Time Commitment, and Compensation
This position will require 80 hours total (up to 8 hours per week; not to incur any overtime), under a study period currently ending Nov. 30. It is flexible with regard to day and time of work during the week. Computer workstations will be set up in the School of Nursing Mission Bay campus at 490 Illinois Street, San Francisco, CA 94143.
Compensation will be $34.43-$50.01 per hour, based on experience (Salary Scale for GSRs).
How to Apply
Please contact Grace Kistner at [email protected] with subject “Application: GSR for PPINNC-3”.
Employer and Summary of Department: Michele Pelter, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor, director of the ECG Monitoring Research Lab in the Physiological Nursing department.