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