Description
Provide inpatient care for infants, children, and adolescents in pediatric wards, acute care units, newborn nurseries, and emergency departments, collaborating with PICU/NICU teams as needed. Manage and coordinate family-centered care throughout hospitalization.
- • Refer children to pediatric subspecialists, child life, social work, or other services as needed.
- • Participate in pediatric-focused continuing education and maintain PALS as required.
- • Direct and supervise pediatric nursing, residents, and allied staff in inpatient care.
- • Write pediatric discharge summaries and send them to primary care pediatricians.
- • Direct operations of pediatric short-stay, observation, or specialty units.
- • Train and supervise pediatric residents, medical students, and other health professionals.
- • Prescribe weight-based medications and treatment regimens for pediatric inpatients.
- • Order and interpret pediatric laboratory tests, radiographs, and other diagnostics.
- • Provide inpatient pediatric consultations to other services.
- • Conduct family-centered discharge planning and discharge pediatric patients.
- • Diagnose, treat, and provide continuous care to infants, children, and adolescents in the hospital.
- • Admit pediatric patients for hospital care from the emergency department, clinics, or transfers.
- • Communicate with primary care pediatricians at admission, with care changes, and at discharge to ensure continuity.
- • Lead or support pediatric quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
