Emergency Medicine Physician
Job Description
Emergency medicine physicians often treat patients who have life-threatening conditions. Their primary job functions are to resuscitate and stabilize patients and transition care to an appropriate endpoint whether that be the ICU, general inpatient bed, another provider, another hospital, or home.
Responsibilities
- 24-hour coverage of definitive care in the emergency department Team leader in the emergency department shift ensuring KPIs are met e.g. triage to consultation time
- Clinical assessment and management of all ED patients
- Supervises bed management of the ED e.g. down/upgrading of cases, and transfer in and out of the department
- Lead resuscitation cases in code blue
- Leads and management of disaster code
- Gives online directives to EMS on shift
- May be assigned partial administrative roles such as writing policies, and teaching nurses
- Enhancement of the patient journey in the emergency department
- Advocate for ED patient health
- Attends monthly intradepartmental meetings.
- Supports nursing staff during the shift to enhancing patient care.
- Meticulous documentation of patient MR and insurance documents.
