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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
- 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 Medical Director
Tasks for “Hospitalist Medical Director”
- Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
- Admit patients for hospital stays.
- Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
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- Cytobrushes
- Endoscopic dissectors
- Hand-held ultrasound devices
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Dual-mode cell phones
- Fine biopsy needles
- Flexible endoscopes
- Digital cameras
- Aspheric lens magnifiers
- Magnifier glasses
- Smartphones
- Hot biopsy forceps
- Tongue depressors
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Otoscopes
- Pulse oximeters
- Electronic stethoscopes
- Pulsed Doppler ultrasounds
- Capnograph monitors
- Clinical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
- Opthalmoscopes
- Continuous wave Doppler ultrasounds
- Blood glucometers
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- Laryngoscopes
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- Laryngeal mask airways LMA
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- Medical suction catheters
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- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Headband magnifier lights
- Pacing generators
- Flexible bronchoscopes
- Invasive blood pressure monitors
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- Bipolar forceps
- Central venous catheters
- Galilean loupes
- Indwelling catheters
- Cardiorespiratory monitors
- Ayre's spatula
- Laptop computers
- Wood's lamps
- Automated defibrillators
- Fetal ultrasound monitors
- Needleless injection systems
- Trocars
- Personal computers
- Hypodermic needles
- Tourniquet cuffs
- Dressing forceps
- Digital handheld thermometers
- Phonocardiographs
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- Infusion pumps
- Tablet computers
- Neckband hanging magnifiers
- Pressure infusers
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- Echocardiography systems
- Cold biopsy forceps
- MDeverywhere
- Web browser software
- Computerized physician order entry CPOE software
- Email software
- Microsoft Excel
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- Microsoft PowerPoint
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