Hospitalist-Newborn and Pediatrics-Casual
Core
Provides direct inpatient care, consultation, and procedures for hospitalized pediatric patients and newborns in a hospital setting.
Role type
Pediatric Hospitalist (Inpatient)
Builds
Patient care plans and stabilization of sick newborns
Domain
Healthcare / Pediatrics
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Pediatric patient assessment, neonatal resuscitation, inpatient management, multidisciplinary collaboration, electronic charting, quality improvement
Preferred skills
Board certification in Pediatrics, experience with newborn nursery and NICU procedures
Technologies
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Responsibilities
Review patient medical history and synthesize health data, provide education and treatment plans to patients and families, perform procedures like circumcisions in newborn nursery/NICU, round on newborns and attend anticipated deliveries, manage inpatient care for sick newborns until stabilization, consult for ED and surgical patients, participate in quality improvement and peer review
Seniority
Staff Physician