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