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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.

Currently Employed: 691,000

Yearly Projected Openings: 30,510

Typical Hourly Wage: $53.86 - $80+

Typical Annual Salary: $112,000 - $166,400+

• Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
• Admit patients for hospital stays.
• Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
• Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
• Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
• Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
• Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
• Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
• Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
• Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.

• Bronchoscopes or accessories
• Medical suction cannulas or tubes or accessories
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Surgical microscopes or loops or magnifiers or accessories

• Accounting software
• Medical software
• Presentation software
• Spreadsheet software
• Word processing software