Physician Hospitalist - Cardiology

About the role

Under general direction, this role is an independent licensed provider responsible for diagnosing and treating patients independently and in collaboration with colleagues. The position provides continuity of patient care by facilitating and coordinating communication between the healthcare team, the patient, and the patient's family. This role coordinates care to ensure quality, cost effective care, appropriate length of stay, patient safety, and excellent patient satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of the Healthcare team in a coordinated model of care, maintaining an average dayshift caseload of 6-8 patients
• Participate as a member of the healthcare team performing cross-coverage
• Perform overnight admissions with completion of a history and physical, completing a minimum of 7 admissions per night
• Demonstrate competence in clinical assessment and decision making including diagnostic reasoning and problem solving
• Perform a comprehensive history and physical for patients admitted to the hospitalist services
• Place orders in CPOE, obtain, interpret, and follow-up on appropriate diagnostic tests
• Communicate with attending physician on attestation of medical necessity of admission of "inpatient" status patients
• Establish medical diagnosis based on history, assessment and diagnostic findings
• Present his/her patients in the Coordinated Model of Care Rounds
• Coordinate, document and order appropriate treatment plans/plans of care including prescriptions of medications based on a comprehensive review of history and physical and diagnostic results
• Facilitate patient flow
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team including case management and social work to ensure appropriate and timely discharge
• Initiate protocols/clinical pathways and evaluate the plan of care ensuring timely intervention
• Respond to and manage urgent issues
• Perform and assist with invasive procedures as credentialed as needed
• Collaborate with Hospitalist physicians, specialty physicians and APPs regarding admission, plan of care, discharge and transfer of care, as needed
• Communicate plan of care with the interdisciplinary team
• Incorporate the patient and family in their healthcare plan; communicate plan of care with the patient and family members
• Provide patient and family education related to the plan of care, disease process, new treatment plans and medication regimens
• Advocate for patients ensuring patient/family participation in care, knowledge of treatment options and understanding of rights of care
• Initiate appropriate referrals and specialty consultations or other agency involvement as needed
• Consider the holistic needs of patients and determine appropriate resources (i.e. Pain management, palliative care)
• Demonstrate ethical decision making incorporating other healthcare team members as appropriate
• Use evidenced based interventions, MEC established clinical guidelines and best practice guidelines in planning patient care
• Follow policies, procedures and standards consistently in the performance of assigned duties
• Function as a clinical resource and/or preceptor for other team members including but not limited to all hospitalists, APPs, and nurse practitioners and physician assistant students
• Participate in educational strategies to assist the APPs to improve clinical outcomes as needed
• Serve as interdisciplinary team member focused on improving patient outcomes, safety, quality or cost effectiveness
• Participate in development of evidence-based practices for a specific population or disease process as needed
• Actively participate and attend .80% of all APP staff meetings
• Develop effective working relationships and maintain good communication with all team members
• Document patient care in an accurate and timely fashion in accordance with Medicare and other industry standard guidelines as well as participate in accreditation readiness
• Provide superior service to internal and external customers by consistently demonstrating respect, empathy, and confidentiality
• Promote the organization to all customers
• Act as a loyal, supportive and informed spokesperson for the organization
• Promote the University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Group's values
• Ensure patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department or unit patient safety initiative
• Provide safe patient care through compliance with all regulatory agency recommendations and mandates
• Report adverse events and near misses through the Event Tracking System and take action to correct observed risks to patient safety
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• NPI number, DEA and CDS required
• BLS required, ACLS required
• Demonstrated ability to promote professionalism through involvement in professional organizations, teaching, research, publishing and/or certification in area of specialty
• Ability to demonstrate competency knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the lifespan and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's requirements relative to his or her population specific and age specific needs
• Highly effective verbal communication skills required to interact with patient, family, department units, medical and nursing staff at all essential matters
• Demonstrated/documented effective interpersonal skills
• Maintains updated hospital safety and other mandatory training
• Maintains updated immunizations as per recommended practice area