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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 Program Director”
- Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Admit patients for hospital stays.
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
- Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
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- Pulsed Doppler ultrasounds
- Personal computers
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- Cannula sets
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- Rigid bronchoscopes
- Laptop computers
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- Personal digital assistants PDA
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- Wood's lamps
- Medical suction catheters
- Pulse oximeters
- Gastrostomy feeding tubes
- Digital handheld thermometers
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- Continuous wave Doppler ultrasounds
- Otoscopes
- Neckband hanging magnifiers
- Medication dispensing machines
- Hypodermic needles
- Hot biopsy forceps
- Clinical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
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- Binocular light compound microscopes
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- Endotracheal tubes
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- Vaginal specula
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- Fetal ultrasound monitors
- Needleless injection systems
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- Flexible sigmoidoscopes
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- Ultrasonic scalpels
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- Ultrasound catheters
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- Magnifier glasses
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- Email software
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- Microsoft Excel
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- Microsoft PowerPoint
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