Hospital pharmacists association of ireland

Dear All,

We have a new post advertised for Pharmacist Advanced Specialist to oversee our medication safety programme in the Hospital - see details below

The successful candidate would develop and lead the medication safety programme including elements such as:

An annual policy document for the medication safety programme

• Internal reporting system for MSEs

• Protocols to describe all aspects of the operation of the reporting system

• Database for analysing the data in medication safety reports

• Proactively attain a holistic view of the safety status of the organisation

• Trigger tools, e.g. the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Drug Events

• Staff surveys

• Self-assessment tools, e.g. checklists compiled by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the ISMP

• Chart reviews

• Safety culture measurement tools, e.g. the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire

• Develop a process for the review, dissemination and documentation of follow up action undertaken in relation to alerts from the HPRA and drug manufacturers, and from other relevant external agencies such as the ISMP, IMSN, HSE and NHS England

• Establish a process for feedback on the learning from MSEs

• Oversee high risk medication, processes and patient groups where there are any deficiencies that need to be addressed.

• Generation and circulation of bulletins or alerts

• Delivery of face-to-face education sessions

• Participation in induction programmes

• Design and delivery of medication safety awareness days or seminars

• Assess what supports are in place to assist staff in the dispensing, prescribing, administration and monitoring of high risk medications and in the management of high risk medication-related process and patient groups. Such supports may take the form of:

• High risk medication policies/protocols

• Hospital medicines guides

• IV administration monographs

• Policies and protocols

• Prescription chart design/revision

• Pre-printed prescribing algorithms or prescriptions

• Assess the volume, type and quality of medication education provided by all categories of staff to all patient types by all categories of staff: inpatients (during the course of their stay and at the point of discharge), outpatients and day case patients.

• Development of a set of metrics to monitor medication safety e.g.:

• Proportion of medical/surgical patients prescribed VTE prophylaxis

• Proportion of patients undergoing medication reconciliation

• Develop a strategic plan for the medication safety programme for the short-term (e.g. 1 year) and long-term (e.g. 5 years) aligned with that of the individual hospital/hospital group plus those of national safety bodies: HIQA and the HSE’s Safermeds National Medication Safety Programme.

If you are interested please complete the application form via Rezoomo link.

Kind Regards,

Oran Quinn

Pharmacy Executive Manager II

Our Lady's Hospital

Navan