Description:
Specialist/Consultant - Intensive Care (ICU) Critical Care Medicine. Healthcare professional
Responsibilities
- Speaking with patients to better understand their concerns, needs, conditions, and medical histories.
- Admitting, discharging, and doing scheduled rounds to check on patients.
- Performing examinations ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, and going over results with patients or the physician, if necessary.
- Establishing care or condition management plans, including prescribing medications or other treatments.
- Educating the patient and family members about medical conditions and courses of action.
- Keeping records regarding patient history, condition, treatments, and progress.
- Alerting physicians when conditions worsen or if abnormalities arise.
Requirements
Consultant Critical Care Medicine-requirements:
- Master’s degree or Doctorate and a state license.
- Experience, additional certifications, or fluency in a second language may be preferred.
- Knowledge of acute conditions and treatments.
- Understanding of diagnostic tests and the ability to interpret test results.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, interpersonal, and active listening skills.
- Strong computer and data entry skills.
- Alert, thorough, reliable, and calm under stress.
- Organized and attentive, especially when multitasking under pressure.
- Passionate and committed to providing high-quality, sympathetic care, and service to patients. Critical Care Medicine