PATIENT SAFETY MEDICATION OFFICER - Sinai Chicago

Position Purpose:

• Provide leadership and direction in the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of medication monitoring systems to assure the delivery of consistently high quality pharmacy service.
• Coordinate medication safety activities for the Pharmacy Department. This includes, but is not limited to, the coordination of performance improvement activities, policies and procedures, and accreditation recommendations that relate to medication safety.
• Serve as the department’s representative on various hospital and health system committees.
• Provide project management and overall facilitation for prioritizing and advocating medication safety initiatives related to the design and implementation of systems and processes that support medication safety.
• Standardize the medication use process, as much as possible, across all Sinai entities (Acute Care Hospitals and Ambulatory Care Clinics).
• Facilitate departmental adverse drug event, adverse drug reaction, and medication error reporting and detection. Analyze data and identify methods to reduce the frequency of these events.
• Partner with other health system professionals to improve quality of care, medication safety and customer satisfaction.
• Functions as a project manager to facilitate, prioritize, and advocate patient safety initiatives. Oversees the designing and implementing of systems and processes that enhance medication safety. Determines and designs the analytical framework for safety initiatives and institute practice changes.
• The Medication Safety Officer works collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team, especially Pharmacy Leadership, other pharmacists, nursing staff, medical staff leadership and patient safety/QI leadership.
• Identifies and assists in the implementation and execution of best practices for medication safety. Analyzes current multi-discipline practices that contribute to medication errors and appropriately institutes steps to achieve measurable significant error prevention.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of a college of Pharmacy accredited by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE).
• Doctor of Pharmacy and hospital residency required.
• Five (5) years of hospital pharmacy experience preferred.
• Excellent drug knowledge base including pharmacokinetics, dosing and nutritional support.
• Good computer skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrates knowledge of rules, regulations, policies and laws pertaining to preparation, storage, procurement, use, and disposal of medications in the practice of Pharmacy for the State of Illinois.
• Licensed as a Registered Pharmacist in the State of Illinois.

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