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