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