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