Inpatient US Healthcare System
a Quick Guide for Non-US IMG
by Yulius Haryadi MD
What's inside:
- Clinical Roles and Responsibilities
- Hospitalist/Attending Physician
- Intern (PGY1)
- Resident (PGY2/3)
- Consultants (Cardiologist, Gastroenterologist, Palliative Care, etc.)
- Palliative Care Team
- Physician Assistant (PA)
- Nurses (RN, APRN, LNA, LPN)
- Nursing Supervisor/Charge Nurse/Nurse Manager
- PICC Line Nurse
- Dialysis Nurse
- Wound Nurse
- Clinical Pharmacist
- Crisis Workers (CW)
- Phlebotomists
- X-Ray Technicians
- ECG Technicians
- Echo Technicians
- Clinical Nutritionist
- Physical/Occupational/Speech Therapists (PT/OT/ST)
- Respiratory Therapist (RT)
- Interventional Radiologist
- Social Worker
- Case Manager
- 1:1 Sitter
- Transporter
- Tele-services
- Medical Translator
- Security Officer
- Inpatient Facilities and Their Function
- Emergency Department (ED)
- Floor (General Inpatient Unit)
- Telemetry Unit
- Intermediate Care Unit
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or Critical Care Unit (CCU)
- Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Labor and Delivery Unit
- Operating Room (OR)
- Endoscopy Unit
- Catheterization Lab (Cath Lab)
- Trauma Bay (in ED)
- Agencies/Groups Involved in Inpatient Care
- Poison Control
- Transplant Donor Networks
- Insurance (Medicaid and Medicare)
- Commercial Insurance
- Adult and Child Protective Services
- Law Enforcement
- Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
- Discharge Facilities
- Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH)
- Acute Rehab (Inpatient Rehab)
- Subacute Rehab
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
- Long Term Care (LTC) or Nursing Home
- Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
- Board and Care
- Room and Board
- Home with Caregiver
- Home with Home Health
- Home with Medicaid CFI Program
- Home with Hospice
- Inpatient Hospice
