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