Associate Consultant / Clinical Associate -NH SRCC Children's Hospital

Role & responsibilities

I. Cognitive Clinical Management:

• Perform and document history and physical examination
• Formulate differential diagnosis
• Develops and documents initial plan of care
• Modifies daily plan of care*
• Writes daily progress notes
• Obtain and document informed consent
• Order appropriate referrals
• Order appropriate investigations
• Interpret homodynamic parameters in critically ill patients*
• Interpret laboratory & radiology Results
• Orders transfusions of blood and blood products*
• Order appropriate medication and other orders
• Prepare an appropriate discharge summary
• Guide Fellows and Registrars.

II. Clinical Non-invasive Management:

• Perform digital rectal examination
• Perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
• Orders, adjusts artificial feeding modalities
• Participation in teaching and academic activities both intradepartmental & interdepartmental
• Have administrative control on the junior doctors and technical staff

III. Clinical Invasive Management :

• Inserts central venous catheter
• Performs oral endotracheal intubation
• Performs nasogastric intubation
• Inserts urethral catheter
• Inserts invasive lines for monitoring*
• Peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion
• Chest tube insertion
• Lumbar Puncture (LP )

Preferred candidate profile : Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care