Hospitalist Job Description

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Job Title

Hospitalist

Employee Duties & Responsibilities

1) Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.

2) Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge skills.

3) Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.

4) Write patient discharge summaries send them to primary care physicians.

5) Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.

6) Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.

7) Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.

8) Order or interpret the results of tests like laboratory tests radiographs x-rays .

9) Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.

10) Conduct discharge planning discharge patients.

11) Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.

12) Admit patients for hospital stays.

13) Communicate with patients primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity quality of care.

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