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.
- • Refer patients to medical specialists, social services, or other professionals as appropriate.
- • 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.
- • Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- • Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- • Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- • Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- • Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- • Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
- • Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- • Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- • Admit patients for hospital stays.
- • Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- • Direct or support quality improvement projects or safety programs.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
