Hospital director Jobs in Raleigh, NC

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About Duke Raleigh Hospital, A Campus of Duke University Hospital

Pursue your passion for caring with the Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 204-beds, it is the third largest of Duke Healthas four hospitals and offers a comprehensive array of services, including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care.

Job Location

Positions available at multiple hospitals within Duke Health System

Job Summary

Hospitalist physicians in the Hospital Medicine Department are clinicians and / or clinician educators who provide clinical care for patients admitted at Duke University Health System hospitals. They support surgical and specialty services through consultative general internal medicine practice, as well as teach staff, graduate medical trainees, and medical students on inpatient educational rotations.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Hospitalists will engage in direct patient care activities and medical / clinical practice as the principal component of his / her overall professional responsibility within the Department. Patient care activities will include, but are not be limited to the following :

• Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management of patients
• When necessary make referral for consultation
• Direct care planning
• Order medications and therapeutic treatments when warranted
• Authorize transfers
• Conduct risk assessment
• When appropriate, make determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients in your care.
• Direct contact and consultation with patient family members, friends, advocates, and others to ensure effective communication of patient status and care plans, and to encourage / support an open visitor-friendly environment within the hospital environment.
• Extensive and on-going communications with community primary care physicians who routinely manage the care of patients currently in your care within the hospital
• Day-to-day patient contact / rounding / care management that actively encourages and includes professional input from all members of the patient care team
• Completes all clinical and professional records and documentation accurately and in a timely manner to assure compliance with local, state and federal regulatory, licensure and accreditation requirements.
• Work to create a positive work culture within cross-departmental teams
• Align your work with other Hospital Medicine initiatives.
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Job Eligibility Requirements

Education

Licensure

Certification

Experience

Job Hours

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Essential Physical Job Functions :

Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and / or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.