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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
- Pediatric Hospitalist
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist
- Internal Medicine Hospitalist
- Academic Hospitalist
Tasks for “Academic Hospitalist”
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- Admit patients for hospital stays.
- Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
- Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
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- Tablet computers
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Gastrostomy feeding tubes
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- Hot biopsy forceps
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- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Magnifier glasses
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- Tourniquet cuffs
- Personal computers
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- Laser facsimile machines
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- Endo-cervical brushes
- Central venous catheters
- Fetal ultrasound monitors
- Infusion pumps
- Ayre's spatula
- Endoscopic dissectors
- Indwelling catheters
- Laptop computers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Flexible endoscopes
- Wood's lamps
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- Flexible sigmoidoscopes
- Dressing forceps
- Laryngoscopes
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- Cold biopsy forceps
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- Otoscopes
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- Computerized physician order entry CPOE software
- Medical reference software
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- Microsoft PowerPoint
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