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