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