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