Children's National Hospital

Key Responsibilities

• • Provide clinical services for patients at Children’s Hospital and other approved sites in an ethical, professional and timely manner.
• • Provide oversight of the medical care team and manage direct patient care for a specified patient population; improve continuity of care, customer service and partnerships with community medical providers through timely completion of records and communication.
• • Provide on-call services as determined by the division leadership.
• • Actively participate in family centered care and communicate in a professional and compassionate manner; refer patients to specialists and to relevant ancillary services as appropriate.
• • Appropriately utilize the defined chain of command and escalation policies.
• • Respond to team members and outside medical providers in a timely and respectful manner; communicate clearly to trainees expectations regarding patient updates and notifications of significant clinical changes, and encourages questions from trainees.
• • Participate in CNMC’s advocacy initiatives.
• • Contribute scholarly effort to the advancement of public policy to promote population-based pediatric health and well being.
• • Teach patients and families about treatment, prevention, and care enhancement techniques.
• • Participate in specific health promotion, education and/or prevention programs.
• • Participate as appropriate in hospital/university-wide educational programs.
• • Provide timely feedback to trainees.
• • Ensure adequate orientation for the care that the trainees deliver.
• • Supervise and train clinical professionals and students effectively.
• • Follow established bylaws, policies and procedures, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
• • Adequately and promptly complete all clinical documentation as required by JCAHO, other regulatory bodies and/or the Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules and Regulations and Policies and Procedures include complete clinical charge documentation.
• • Identify problems related to patient services and make recommendations for improvement.
• • Cooperate and participate in the development, implementation and revision of policies affecting medical practice, judgment and quality of care; Participate as a member of special care teams, Medical Staff and hospital committees.
• • Review and prepare protocol for use by staff.
• • Evaluate patient care according to adopted protocol and Quality Assurance program criteria.
• • Participate in evaluation of peers and support staff; acknowledge and report medical and/or other errors as well as participate in efforts to prevent them.