Job Descriptions

• Develop and perfect secondary care and sub-specialty skills in the field of Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine. • Exercise and achieve the utmost accuracy in diagnostics and therapy using medical advice from colleagues of other medical disciplines in order to achieve optimum outcomes. • Develop an understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, coordinate with different medical health professionals that are involved in patient’s care. • Practice a compassionate and humanistic interaction with patients, families and colleagues; be able to present procedures to patients and families in an understandable and professional way. • Demonstrate technical skills in hands-on procedures. • Attend and participate in educational activities - multidisciplinary conferences, research conferences and grand rounds conferences. • Reflects and practices quality improvement in performing procedures, develops and follows medical pathways and meets standards in terms of patient safety, patient and family rights, assessment of patients. • Supports and actively participates in JCI accreditation of the hospital. • Use the concept of “Critical Thinking” during the process of medical decision making. • Develop and demonstrate an understanding of cost containment. • Document medical services in a way that satisfies the requirements of third party payers (health insurers) and allows the transformation (coding) to Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPTs). • Respect confidentiality and patient privacy, make sure that patients are not being exploited in cases such as invasion of privacy. • Is aware of ethical and legal issues which arise during patient care. • Represents the hospital effectively to external patients and relatives, local regulatory bodies, and any other internal or external.

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