Medication Safety Officer

Nemours is seeking a Medication Safety Officer to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Pediatric Medication Safety Program Officer (MSO) reviews, coordinates, administers, and implements medication safety initiatives.

The MSO oversees adverse drug event reporting activities and assists in the administration, supervision, and consolidation of medication safety initiatives.

The MSO serves as a resource to risk management, safety, pharmacy, quality, and departments on matters of medication safety and regulatory compliance.

The MSO actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.

The MSO is a primary contributor to the culture of medication and patient safety, by advocating for the reduction of errors associated with the medication use process at Nemours Children's Hospital.

The pediatric MSO is an organizational subject matter expert in all aspects of medication safety; including responsibility for guiding and monitoring the design, implementation and maintenance of safe, standardized medication systems that remain in compliance with ECRI/ISMP, ASHP, AHRQ and other safety organizations by working collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team including our patient's families.


* Acts as the primary internal liaison consultant to continually improve the safety of medication use processes.
+ Serves as a resource for clinical departments/disciplines for medication safety issues.
+ Assist in efforts to ensure compliance with the Joint Commission, FDA, USP, CMS, Board of Pharmacy regulatory standards and standard setting agencies as they relate to safe medication use practices.
+ Coordinates the spread of medication safety practices to ensure they are implemented across the organization and documents effectiveness of those practices in reducing medication events.
+ Develops strategies to minimize the potential for medication errors associated with medication labeling, packaging, nomenclature, storage, standardization, preparation, distribution, dispensing, and administration.


* Acts an internal resource for introducing trends, practices, and alerts from the internal and external environments.
+ Collects, reviews, and evaluates medication event data for identification of trends and areas for improvement and reviews all medication events ensuring accurate data.
+ Provides medication safety alerts to Nemours Children's Health
+ Assures practice is reviewed in response to any such alerts and works to bridge identified gaps.
+ Regularly reviews external literature as it relates to medication use safety bringing it forth for discussion in appropriate forums.


* Interacts with and is a liaison to external organizations (ISMP/ECRI, CHA, SPS) as a content expert in medication safety.


* Identifies opportunities for proactive ch...