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Melissa Gasparetto

Birmingham

Summary

Dedicated and experienced research professional with comprehensive knowledge of clinical trial activities and operations. Strengths include strategic planning, project management, team leadership, and process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency. Notable contributions include successful implementation of improvements in clinical trial protocols resulting in enhanced data accuracy and study performance.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Site Manager

KUR Research
Bessemer
01.2025 - Current
  • Site Manager overseeing all aspects of clinical trial activities for two research sites in central Alabama.
  • This includes managing personnel, budgets, and resources, as well as ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines and ICH/GCP standards.
  • Key responsibilities involve site selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out, as well as participant recruitment, data collection, and staff training.

Legal Nurse Consultant

Melissa Gasparetto, RN, CLNC
Birmingham
03.2016 - Current
  • Review and advise on medical malpractice, wrongful death, worker's compensation, insurance litigation, toxic tort, personal injury, and accident claims for attorneys.
  • Hours: PRN

Lead Mobile Research Nurse

Science37
Birmingham
07.2022 - 01.2025
  • Lead Mobile Research Nurse with expertise in multiple therapeutic areas, focused on decentralized clinical trials. Specialized in pediatrics.
  • Ensures professional patient care delivery in compliance with federal and state regulations, IRB requirements, ICH/GCP standards, and SOPs.
  • Responsible for delivering mobile nursing services, including obtaining consent, procuring and processing specimens, performing assessments, managing and transporting IP and/or specimens, and other duties required by the sponsor.
  • Management and primary contact for per diem staff.
  • Leads process improvements, conducts documentation audits, and supports operational development.

FT Travel Occupational Health Nurse

CareOnSite
Long Beach
07.2021 - 07.2022
  • Deliver and monitor comprehensive occupational health services, including immunizations and health surveillance.
  • Develop health promotion programs with the supervising physician.
  • Conduct COVID testing and advise on related policies.
  • Perform audiograms, PFT, hearing and respirator fit tests, EKG, TB skin testing, and physical exams.
  • Provide emergent and first-aid care per company protocol.
  • Oversee case management for work-related injuries and illnesses, managing claims and coordinating follow-up care as needed.
  • Certified in BAT, DOT urine, and hair sample collection.

Nurse Coordinator (Federal Government Contractor)

Spectrum Healthcare/HCRN/U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
Birmingham
03.2019 - 07.2022
  • Provides nursing care in an occupational health setting, including walk-in care, first aid, emergency response, and treatments as outlined in standing orders.
  • Assesses environmental hazards, promotes employee health through education and risk-based prevention programs, and manages clinic supplies.
  • Coordinates with the Medical Office in Baltimore as well as FOH (Federal Occupational Health), oversees staff training on policies, ensures certification compliance, and maintains clinic coverage.
  • Engages in direct patient interaction daily.

COVID Compliance Officer

Trusted Health/HBO/WarnerMedia
Milwaukee
01.2021 - 04.2021
  • COVID Compliance Officer duties include creating, managing and implementing COVID protocols for on-site and off-site cast and crew per national and local guidelines, leading COVID safety planning and advising the production team on best practices, drafting and adopting the COVID safety plan, conducting weekly protocol classes, and coordinating COVID testing for pre/post-travel.
  • Responsibilities also include selecting and coordinating with testing companies, contact tracing positive cases, enforcing quarantine as needed, preparing reports for HBO/WarnerMedia, overseeing the COVID Compliance Department, managing health and safety supplies, and addressing cast and crew COVID safety concerns.

Occupational Health Nurse/Public Health Nurse

WSi Healthcare
Denver
07.2020 - 02.2021
  • Occupational Health Nurse duties included coordination of the associate health program, monitoring of the vaccine program, administration of TB tests and vaccinations, documentation of workplace accidents per OSHA standards, management of Workers' Compensation claims, collaboration with providers and insurers, treatment of associate illnesses and injuries, and record maintenance for on-site clinic visits.
  • Public Health Nurse responsibilities included managing COVID-19 testing and vaccination sites, overseeing staff, conducting specimen collection and triage for patients aged 1 to 100, handling medication refills and patient inquiries via Citrix and Epic EMR systems, performing contact tracing, and collaborating with public health departments and company providers on patient concerns. Community outreach was key to our success.

Contract RN/School Nurse

ATC Healthcare
Birmingham
10.2017 - 05.2018
  • School nurse substitute for local elementary, middle, and high schools as needed.
  • Performed health assessments for employees at ATC, Children's Hospital, and other facilities in the area.

Flu Clinic RN - Lead Nurse

PassPort Healthcare
Phoenix
08.2017 - 11.2017
  • Travel to businesses and perform flu clinics, biometric screenings, and Health Fairs.

Case Manager RN

Alabama HomeCare
Birmingham
12.2016 - 07.2017
  • Home Health Case Manager coordinated and managed patient care in a home setting.
  • Conducted initial and ongoing assessments to determine patient needs, developed and implemented individualized care plans, and adjusted plans as needed.
  • Arranged and coordinated various healthcare services, including nursing, therapy, and personal care, as well as connecting patients with community resources.
  • Supervised home health aides and other care providers to ensure they are following the care plan and providing quality care.
  • Collaborating with the patient and their family to develop a safe and effective discharge plan when the patient no longer requires home health services.
  • Provided direct nursing services to patients, including wound care and peripheral line care.
  • Collaborated with physicians and other HCPs to determine the patient's individualized plan of care, to include discharge planning beginning at Day 1.

Cardiology RN

Alabama Cardiovascular Group
Birmingham
04.2016 - 11.2016
  • Cardiology Clinic RN supporting a single physician - duties include managing comprehensive, multi-disciplinary care for over 2,000 adult patients aged 18-100.
  • Responsibilities encompass patient assessment and care plan implementation, administrative tasks such as chart preparation, data entry, and managing prior authorizations with insurance companies, adjusting medications based on lab results, interpreting diagnostic tests, including echocardiograms, EKGs, stress tests, CTAs, and other radiographic studies, arranging and monitoring home health services, applying Holter and Event monitors, obtaining and monitoring vital signs, and maintaining and updating patient records with all relevant documentation.

Staff RN

Over the Mountain Pediatrics/Children's of Alabama
Birmingham
10.2015 - 11.2016
  • Duties include assessing, planning, and implementing care plans on patients 2 days-23 years old, continuous observation and extensive documentation of patients; received patient from waiting room, triaged appropriately, administered PO, IM, and SC medications and vaccinations as ordered by the physicians; answered nurse calls; performed education regarding treatments, vaccinations, medications, conditions; performed oral strep tests, nasopharyngeal flu tests, and spot mono tests on patients; scheduled and rescheduled patients for sick and well child visits; assisted physician in any procedures; followed COA and OTMP protocols at all times.

RN-ER

St. Vincent's Hospital Birmingham
Birmingham
08.2012 - 10.2014
  • Duties include assessing, planning, and implementing care on patients, continuous observation and extensive documentation on patients; receiving patients from EMS, triaging patients upon entry to ED waiting room; starting peripheral IV's, accessing port-a-cath's using sterile technique; venipuncture, performing ABG's; administering IM, IV, SC and PO medications per orders; blood administration per protocol; inserting Foley catheters and NG tubes; assisting doctors on bedside procedures; monitoring vital signs on patients; assisting patients with ADL's; obtaining and reading EKG's; conscious sedation monitoring; vent care; ability to assist in code blue situations; following hospital protocol for all procedures.

RN-Vascular Care Unit

St. Vincent's East Hospital
Birmingham
02.2012 - 10.2014
  • RN duties include assessing, planning and implementing care on patients, continuous observation and extensive documentation on patients.
  • Vascular Care Unit specializes in pre and post cardiac catheterization and bedside procedures such as TEE, Bronchoscopy, Cardioversion, and Tilt table study.
  • Recovery of patients can include removing intra-arterial and intravenous sheaths, monitoring heart rhythms, caring for ICD/PPM sites and monitoring patients who received interventions.

RN-ER

Cooper Green Mercy Hospital
Birmingham
10.2010 - 02.2012
  • RN duties include assessing, planning and implementing care on patients, continuous observation and extensive documentation on patient, receiving patients from EMS, triaging patients upon entry to ED waiting room, starting peripheral IV's, venipuncture, performing ABG's, administering IM, IV, SC and PO medication, blood administration, inserting NG tubes, inserting urinary catheters, assisting doctors on bedside procedures, routine vital signs on patients, assisting with ADL's, EKG's, ICU overflow patient care, vent care, CVP and arterial line care, and always following hospital protocols for any procedure.

Education

Certificate - Legal Nurse Consultant

Duke University
Durham, NC
03-2016

Associate of Applied Science - Nursing

Central Alabama Community College
Alexander City, Alabama
05-2010

Skills

  • Clinical trial management
  • Site management
  • Budget management
  • Personnel management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Participant recruitment
  • Clinical trial monitoring
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Audit preparation

Certification

  • BLS for Healthcare Providers
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
  • Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Life Support (PALS)
  • GCP (ICH focus) - CITI
  • CRC Foundations - CITI
  • Advanced CRC - CITI
  • IPS for Clinicians - CITI
  • Legal Nurse Consultant
  • OSHA 10

RN Licenses

  • Alabama - Compact/Multi-state
  • Alaska
  • California
  • District of Columbia
  • Hawaii
  • Illinois
  • Massachusetts
  • New York

Timeline

Site Manager

KUR Research
01.2025 - Current

Lead Mobile Research Nurse

Science37
07.2022 - 01.2025

FT Travel Occupational Health Nurse

CareOnSite
07.2021 - 07.2022

COVID Compliance Officer

Trusted Health/HBO/WarnerMedia
01.2021 - 04.2021

Occupational Health Nurse/Public Health Nurse

WSi Healthcare
07.2020 - 02.2021

Nurse Coordinator (Federal Government Contractor)

Spectrum Healthcare/HCRN/U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
03.2019 - 07.2022

Contract RN/School Nurse

ATC Healthcare
10.2017 - 05.2018

Flu Clinic RN - Lead Nurse

PassPort Healthcare
08.2017 - 11.2017

Case Manager RN

Alabama HomeCare
12.2016 - 07.2017

Cardiology RN

Alabama Cardiovascular Group
04.2016 - 11.2016

Legal Nurse Consultant

Melissa Gasparetto, RN, CLNC
03.2016 - Current

Staff RN

Over the Mountain Pediatrics/Children's of Alabama
10.2015 - 11.2016

RN-ER

St. Vincent's Hospital Birmingham
08.2012 - 10.2014

RN-Vascular Care Unit

St. Vincent's East Hospital
02.2012 - 10.2014

RN-ER

Cooper Green Mercy Hospital
10.2010 - 02.2012

Certificate - Legal Nurse Consultant

Duke University

Associate of Applied Science - Nursing

Central Alabama Community College