P 003 PAEDIATRIC SIMULATION—A NEW ROLE FOR PHARMACISTS IN IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY

Aim Simulation has become an important resource in patient safety and education. Senior pharmacist involvement in high fidelity simulations began through regional educational “road shows ” in referring hospitals which identified areas of concern in medication safety. This led to working with the simulation team with the aim of assessing the place of pharmacy in this relatively new methodology. Method Scenarios were planned based on situations involving clinical pharmacists. A group of paediatric pharmacists working locally observed and assessed a simulated incident involving a heparin overdose. The same scenario was repeated as a work-shop at a national conference. This introduced a variety of phar-macists to simulation who were then offered the opportunity to attend a study day