MEDICATION SAFETY OFFICER

Develops plans, organizes and coordinates the Hospital's overall medication
safety programs. Provides leadership for medication safety assessments,
coordinates the medication safety activities, educates others on the system-
based cause for medical error, consults with concerned areas and communicates
literature-based programs that ensure medication safety strategies within
KFSH&RC-Riyadh.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

‎1. Identifies and implements best practices for medications safety that will
support the reduction of medication errors and other factors that contribute
to unintended adverse medication outcomes.
‎2. Analyses the Hospital 's current medication safety practices that
contributes to medication errors and take proactive steps for preventions.
‎3. Oversees the management and use of medication error information. Reviews
internal error reports and utilizes information from external reporting
programs (e.g. ISMP Medication Safety Alert and ECRI Health Device Alerts).
‎4. Manages medication-error reporting, review, investigation to determine
root cause, and data entry into database. Analyses data and determines trends
for process improvement, develops the required measures to eliminate the
likelihood of occurrence or recurrence of errors.
‎5. Provides reports to the Administration of Medical & Clinical Affairs
(MCA), clinical staff, and patient care areas and to Hospital Committees.
‎6. Participates in the design and development of competency assessments for
evaluating the knowledge and ability of pertinent healthcare providers to
perform tasks related to medication safety.
‎7. Standardizes related definition, classification, and reporting of
medication error in the KFSH&RC-Riyadh. Leads the development and review of
all medication-use, medication safety and medication-error reporting policies
and procedures.
‎8. Educates pharmacy staff and other clinicians to promote safe medication
practices. Develops and implements the most up-to-date educational programs to
improve patient and medication safety and regulatory compliance.
‎9. Designs and implements educational presentations that facilitate the
understanding and implementations of the medication safety standards within
the Hospital including dangerous abbreviations and illegible orders.
‎10. Serves as resource member for Medical & Clinical Affairs on issues
related to medication safety. Participates in departmental, multidisciplinary,
hospital, health system and regional committees related to emergency
medications, adverse drug events, medication errors, policy review and
development, safe medication use, and patient safety.
‎11. Supports and encourages error reporting throughout the Hospital through a
culture error reporting system and the development of a recognition program
aimed at improving medication safety.
‎12. Develops and implements medication controls and safety standards in the
Pharmacy and in all Hospital patient care and routinely monitors compliance
and conducts a hospital-wide assessment of the patient safety to create a
baseline measure of the safety culture and the prevalence of risk of error.
‎13. Facilitates changes needed to meet the Joint Commission International
(JCI) other standards of international accreditation organization.
‎14. Maintains collaborative and effective relationships with other healthcare
providers and keeps abreast of significant medication safety trends, and
regulatory guidelines, which may influence assigned functions/services and/or
the Hospital.
‎15. Participates in self and others education, training, and development as
applicable.
‎16. Follows all related General Organization's policies and procedures.

Education

Doctor or Master 's degree of Clinical Pharmacy from an accredited college of
Pharmacy; or Pharm.D. Degree from accredited school in USA is required.

Experience Required

General Pharmacy Practice Residency and one-year specialty residency
accredited by ASHP, eight (‎8) years of clinical experience in a hospital
setting after completion of the last education program is required for
candidates without residency training. For those with General Pharmacy
Practice Residency only, six (‎6) years clinical experience is required.

Other Requirements(Certificates)

N/A