Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Key Responsibilities

• • Provide direct patient care in an inpatient setting, working under the supervision of a sub-specialty attending physician.
• • Assess the complex acute, critical and chronically ill patient for urgent and emergent conditions.
• • Utilizes relevant data to formulate a plan of care in conjunction with the supervising sub-specialty attending physician.
• • May supervise clinical providers including resident physicians and nurse practitioners and provide performance feedback in all aspects of clinical functions.
• • Supervise and ensure high quality of all clinical care services provided in the Hospital.
• • Continually review current pediatric standards of care and work with leadership team to implement new processes as needed.
• • Respond to clinical alerts and updates from public health officials and others.
• • Performs therapeutic interventions to stabilize acute and critical health problems as approved in the credentialing/privileging process.
• • Demonstrates a commitment to patient safety by speaking up about safety issues and changing practice to enhance safety.
• • Shares errors or potential errors through system reporting mechanisms.
• • Analyzes the indications, contraindications, risk of complications and cost-benefits of therapeutic interventions.
• • Manages the plan of care through evaluation, modification and documentation according to the patient’s response to therapy.
• • Incorporates health promotion, health protection and injury prevention measures into the plan of care.
• • Facilitates the patient’s transitions between and within health care settings.
• • Serves as an educational resource to the patient/family, nursing staff, and provider team.
• • Acts as a consultant to multidisciplinary health care team members.
• • Participates in own professional development by maintaining required competencies, identifying learning needs and seeking appropriate educational offerings.
• • Acts as a preceptor and mentor to support the development of nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, students, and other health care providers.
• • May provide support and leadership for resident/medical student education curriculum and program implementation.
• • May participate in scholarly activities including research and education as applicable.
• • May assist with administrative management of the inpatient setting.
• • Evaluate and effectively manage patient access, patient flow, quality improvement, staff performance, effective work teams.
• • Participate in the development and implementation of departmental standards, policies, guidelines and protocols.
• • Other Duties As Assigned.
• • Division-specific privileges as prescribed by the Division in accordance with the Medical Staff Bylaws.