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