Physician Hospitalist OB (Part-time)

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.
• Demonstrates competence in clinical assessment and decision making including diagnostic reasoning and problem solving.
• Performs a comprehensive history and physical for patients admitted to the hospitalist services.
• Places orders in CPOE, obtains, interprets, and follows-up on appropriate diagnostic tests.
• Communicates with attending physician on attestation of medical necessity of admission of “inpatient” status patients.
• Establishes medical diagnosis based on history, assessment and diagnostic findings.
• Presents his/her patients in the Coordinated Model of Care Model of Care Rounds.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team including case management and social work to ensure appropriate and timely discharge.
• Initiates protocols/clinical pathways and evaluates the plan of care ensuring timely intervention.
• Responds to and manages urgent issues.
• Performs and assists with invasive procedures as credentialed as needed.
• Collaborates with Hospitalist physicians, specialty physicians and APPs regarding admission, plan of care, discharge and transfer of care, as needed.
• Communicates plan of care with the interdisciplinary team.
• Incorporates the patient and family in their healthcare plan; communicates plan of care with the patient and family members.
• Provides patient and family education related to the plan of care, disease process, new treatment plans and medication regimens.
• Advocates for patients ensuring patient/ family participation in care, knowledge of treatment options and understand of rights of care.
• Initiates appropriate referrals and specialty consultations or other agency involvement as needed.
• Considers the holistic needs of patients and determines appropriate resources (i.e. Pain management, palliative care).
• Demonstrates ethical decision making incorporating other healthcare team members as appropriate.
• Uses evidenced based interventions, MEC established clinical guidelines and best practice guidelines in planning patient care.
• Follows policies, procedures and standards consistently in the performance of assigned duties.
• Functions 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.
• Participates in educational strategies to assist the APPs to improve clinical outcomes as needed.
• Serves as interdisciplinary team member focused on improving patient outcomes, safety, quality or cost effectiveness.
• Develops effective working relationships and maintains good communication with all team members.
• Documents patient care in an accurate and timely fashion in accordance with Medicare and other industry standard guidelines as well as participates in accreditation readiness.
• Provides superior service to internal and external customers by consistently demonstrating respect, empathy, and confidentiality.
• Serves as a loyal, supportive and informed spokesperson for the organization.
• Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department or unit patient safety initiative.
• Reports adverse events and near misses to through the Event Tracking System and takes action to correct observed risks to patient safety.

Qualifications

• NPI number, DEA and CDS required.
• BLS required, ACLS required.