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Job Description
Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Manage and coordinate patient care throughout treatment.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1069.03
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Hospitalists”.
Also Known As…
- Hospitalists
- Medical Director
- Inpatient Services Director
- Hospitalist Program Director
- Hospitalist Medical Director
- Hospitalist
- Hospital Medicine Director
- Chief of Internal Medicine
- Chief of Hospital Medicine
- Associate Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine
- Academic Hospitalist
- Pediatric Hospitalist
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist
- Internal Medicine Hospitalist
Tasks for “Chief of Hospital Medicine”
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
- Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- Admit patients for hospital stays.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
- Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
Related Technology & Tools
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Opthalmoscopes
- Laptop computers
- Hot biopsy forceps
- Endotracheal tubes
- Neckband hanging magnifiers
- Flexible bronchoscopes
- Rigid bronchoscopes
- Tablet computers
- Pulse oximeters
- Ultrasonic scalpels
- Tourniquet cuffs
- Dressing forceps
- Needleless injection systems
- Personal computers
- Aspheric lens magnifiers
- Ayre's spatula
- Electronic stethoscopes
- Phonocardiographs
- Invasive blood pressure monitors
- Vaginal specula
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Blood glucometers
- Bipolar forceps
- Medical suction catheters
- Laryngeal mask airways LMA
- Otoscopes
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Digital cameras
- Splinter forceps
- Laser facsimile machines
- Pressure infusers
- Sphygmomanometers
- Fine biopsy needles
- Headband magnifier lights
- Flexible endoscopes
- Smartphones
- Endoscopic dissectors
- Gastrostomy feeding tubes
- Trocars
- Suture passers
- Galilean loupes
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Flexible sigmoidoscopes
- Infusion pumps
- Ultrasound catheters
- Continuous wave Doppler ultrasounds
- Dual-mode cell phones
- Dictaphones
- Echocardiography systems
- Cytobrushes
- Cold biopsy forceps
- Inflation devices
- Surgical graspers
- Central venous catheters
- Cardiorespiratory monitors
- Gooseneck magnifiers
- Wood's lamps
- Endo-cervical brushes
- Automated defibrillators
- Capnograph monitors
- Pulsed Doppler ultrasounds
- Indwelling catheters
- Fetal ultrasound monitors
- Carbon dioxide monitors
- Bag valve mask BVM resuscitators
- Cannula sets
- Clinical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
- Tongue depressors
- Magnifier glasses
- Pacing generators
- Electroencephalographs
- Hypodermic needles
- Laryngoscopes
- Medication dispensing machines
- Digital handheld thermometers
- Hand-held ultrasound devices
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Medical decision support software
- Epocrates Essentials
- Global positioning system GPS software
- Microsoft Word
- MEDITECH software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- MDeverywhere
- Medical reference software
- Web browser software
- Billing software
- Computerized physician order entry CPOE software
- Email software
- Voice recognition software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Medical procedure coding software