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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 Medical 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 Program Director
Tasks for “Hospitalist Program Director”
- Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
- Admit patients for hospital stays.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
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- Headband magnifier lights
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- Magnifier glasses
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- Cold biopsy forceps
- Electronic stethoscopes
- Fine biopsy needles
- Hand-held ultrasound devices
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- Gooseneck magnifiers
- Tablet computers
- Endoscopic dissectors
- Phonocardiographs
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- Ultrasound catheters
- Trocars
- Tourniquet cuffs
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- Aspheric lens magnifiers
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- Flexible endoscopes
- Echocardiography systems
- Fetal ultrasound monitors
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- Laryngoscopes
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- Blood glucometers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Infusion pumps
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- Endo-cervical brushes
- Needleless injection systems
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Personal computers
- Flexible bronchoscopes
- Laser facsimile machines
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- Pacing generators
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- Digital cameras
- Indwelling catheters
- Vaginal specula
- Carbon dioxide monitors
- Splinter forceps
- Otoscopes
- Cannula sets
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Flexible sigmoidoscopes
- Cytobrushes
- Electroencephalographs
- Wood's lamps
- Smartphones
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- Dual-mode cell phones
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- MEDITECH software
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