Medication Safety Officer (Pharmacist) | Pharmacy | Full Time | Day

Summary

Under general direction from the Director of Pharmacy Services, responsible for the development, monitoring, and improvement of medication policies, procedures, standards of care and best practices for medication safety.

Education

Graduate of an accredited College of Pharmacy. Graduate degree in Pharmacy or Business preferred.

Certification, Registration & Licensure

Required Upon Hire: Licensed to practice pharmacy in the State of New Hampshire or reciprocity pending within 90 days of hire.

Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS) is desirable.

Experience

Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in an acute care hospital pharmacy. Pharmacy residency preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identifies best practices for medication safety.

• Analyzes facility reporting systems to determine their effectiveness in terms of adverse drug event

  capture, timeliness of reporting, and usefulness of information captured.

• Analyzes controlled substance distribution system. Reviews processes for security, and best practices.

• Monitors compliance with controlled substance security standards throughout the enterprise.

• Participates in noncompliance investigative interdisciplinary focus teams to analyze data, develop a failure mode and effects analysis, and makes recommendation for change or disciplinary follow up.

• Formulates educational sessions for nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and allied health professionals

  based on reports in the literature, responses to corrective action plans, and recommendations from

  committee activities.

• Reviews medication variance reporting system on a daily basis.

• Performs a system wide analysis of medication errors and adverse drug events based on data reported.

• Participates in facility based root cause analyses.

• Participate in various safety committees including Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Medication Safety, Patient Safety, Safety and Hazardous handling committee.

• Assists in Quality Assurance and Patient safety by reviewing reported outcomes data to NH State, CMS

  or other agencies.

• Assists in formulary reviews for patient safety by evaluating new drugs or drug classes for adverse effects, special handling, look alike –sound alike names and other characteristics relating to medication safety.

• Performs duties of a pharmacist including order entry, drug information, pharmacokinetic dosing,

  monitoring and documentation.

• Performs other projects or duties as required or assigned.

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Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is LIGHT. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to hear, speak, and walk. The employee is frequently required to do repetitive motion, reach, sit, and stand. The employee is occasionally required to bend, climb, do fine motor, kneel, and squat.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, airborne pathogens, chemotherapeutic agents, non-weather related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.