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Hospitalists

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.

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

Social

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

Investigative

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.

Conventional

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.

Realistic

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.

Enterprising

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.

Artistic

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Physicians and Surgeons

Physicians and Surgeons, All Other

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Health Diagnosing and Treating Practitioners

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

Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.

Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).

Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.

Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.

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

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

Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.

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

Hospitalists

Overview

Career

What Hospitalists Do

Other Job Titles Hospitalists May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Hospitalists

Overview

Career

What Hospitalists Do

Other Job Titles Hospitalists May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Hospitalists

Majors Related to Career

Related Careers

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