The Pediatric Hospitalist will practice in accordance with the philosophy, policies, procedures, and standards of Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He/she will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate appropriate plans of care, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, in accordance with his/her scope of practice within the Special Care or Newborn Nurseries, delivery room, pediatric unit, and the emergency department. The pediatric hospitalist will provide family-centered care to meet family needs such as psychosocial support, education, and discharge planning in conjunction with the Advanced Practitioners, RN/Case Managers, and other disciplines. This position requires flexibility and adaptability to frequent assignment changes and varying daily clinical environments is needed.

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Responsibilities in the Regional Hospital setting will include but not be limited to the responsibility for care of pediatric patients (≤22years) including:
1. Special Care Nursery (Level II)
2. Normal newborn care
3. Attendance at high risk deliveries
4. Inpatient pediatric care
5. Emergency Department consults
6. Pediatric consults for surgery and inpatient pediatric psychiatry services.

Minimum Qualifications:
• MD or DO degree.
• License to practice medicine in the State of Ohio.
• Board-eligible or board certified in Pediatrics.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification
• Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS) certification
• Experience managing general pediatric inpatients, newborn nursery patients, special care nursery (SCN, Level II), pediatric emergency department and consults.

Requirements of the Regional Pediatric Hospitalist Role
1. Competence and confidence in high risk deliveries.
a. Attended at least 25 high risk deliveries, prefer 50+.
b. Competence in deliveries on preterm infants, as well as UVC placement/intubations of neonates.
2. Ability to manage a pediatric code in the ED/manage airways.
3. Ability to triage patients in ED either for safe discharge home, admission, or transfer to another facility either for high level of care or therapeutic/diagnostic interventions we don’t have the capability of at our hospital.
4. Ability to take initial interventions/stabilize a critically ill patient in the ED while awaiting transfer to another facility.
5. Basic understanding of how to diagnose and treat the most common outpatient ED visits such as fevers, viral upper respiratory infections, otitis media, fever of unknown origin, asthma exacerbations, febrile seizures, etc.
6. Competence in EMR use, and accountability for finalizing all notes orders prior to end of shift.

Preferred Requirements
1. Basic breastfeeding knowledge.
2. Ability to perform circumcisions or willing to learn.

Education:
• Completed medical school in a fully accredited institution and completed training in an approved residency program.
• Board certified or board-eligible pediatrician, holding a license to practice in the State of Ohio.
• Certified with Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) and Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS).

Experience:
• Pediatric Care experience required.
• Experience managing general pediatric inpatients, newborn nursery patients, special care nursery (SCN, Level II), and pediatric emergency department and consults required.

Professional Role Model:
• Display positive professional interaction with other attendings, residents and members of the health care team.
• Be respectful, tactful, and honest, use the team approach to care and maintain an open-line of communication.
• Display sound patient and parental interactions.
• Have a passion for underserved children, be insightful, and maintain an open line of communication.
• Be available when needed by other members of the health care team to discuss care issues.
• Encourage and support other team members.

Teaching Techniques:
• Display positive teaching attitudes.
• Actively participate in the formal and clinical teaching.
• Stimulate learning behavior.
• Give ongoing feedback to house-staff in a considerate objective manner.

Attitudes:
• Be committed to primary care.
• Be passionate for underserved children.
• Enjoy role as a teacher and clinician.
• Be willing to remain available for house staff and patients.
• Be respectful of team members, patients, and families, particularly those of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

MINIMUM PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Typing on computer Frequently (34-66%)
Using phone Occasionally (0-33%) Sitting Frequently (34-66%)
Standing Frequently (34-66%) Lifting Occasionally (0-33%)
Walking Frequently (34-66%)
Must be able to independently lift up to 25 lbs.
Must be able to move or reposition patients of any weight or size with the assistance of another person(s) and/or equipment.

The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision.