• Prepares the resident to serve as a leader and authoritative source for a safe medication-use system

• Medication Safety is housed in the Department of Patient Safety.

About out patient safety department:

• The Director of Patient Safety is a pediatric clinically trained pharmacist with experience as the Director of Pharmacy and as a Medication Safety Specialist

• Two medication safety specialist pharmacists

• Multidisciplinary group of safety experts with backgrounds and expertise including nursing, clinical pharmacy, engineering, human factors, public health, project management, process improvement, and more.

• Holistic and targeted approaches to improving the safety of our patients and team members.

• Leads the hospital’s Target Zero initiative, striving for zero patient harm

• Collaborates nationally with more than 100 children’s hospitals across the country to share data and learn best practices.

• Collaborates internally with many departments and units to consult on patient safety related work.

• Works closely with our pharmacy department, which has clinical pharmacy services for over 20 pediatric specialties and over 30 residency-trained preceptors.