Hospitals job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 32 Role Blueprints, from leadership to patient care. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 4
Chief Executive Officer
A critical access hospital CEO runs a small rural hospital for its board, from the ER and the beds to the lab and X-ray.
Chief Financial Officer
A critical access hospital CFO runs the money: cash, budgets, the audit and the yearly Medicare cost report, which drives much of what Medicare pays.
Chief Nursing Officer
The CNO of a critical access hospital leads the nurses in the ER, the inpatient and swing beds, and outpatient care.
Director of Human Resources
A rural hospital's HR director keeps every department staffed and every license current, from ER nurses and lab techs to cooks and housekeepers.
Managers 6
Business Office Manager
A hospital business office manager leads a critical access hospital's registration, coding and billing staff, so claims go out clean and get paid.
House Supervisor
A hospital house supervisor is the RN in charge of the whole building on evenings, nights, weekends and holidays, when managers are gone.
Laboratory Manager
A hospital lab manager runs the lab each day.
Nurse Manager
A nurse manager at a small rural hospital runs its one inpatient unit.
Plant Operations Manager
A hospital plant operations manager keeps the building safe and ready for life safety surveys, from the generator, fire alarms and sprinklers to medical gas, heat and air.
Radiology Manager
A hospital radiology manager runs X-ray and CT.
Office and sales 5
Health Unit Coordinator
A hospital health unit coordinator runs the nurses' station: phones, call lights, admissions and discharges in the EHR, and the paperwork that goes with a transfer.
Medical Coder
A hospital medical coder turns records from every part of a critical access hospital into diagnosis and procedure codes.
Patient Access Representative
A hospital patient access representative registers every patient who comes in, from a 2 a.m.
Revenue Cycle Specialist
A hospital revenue cycle specialist sends a critical access hospital's claims, chases the ones that don't get paid, and works denials and appeals.
Supply Chain Coordinator
A hospital supply chain coordinator keeps every unit stocked, from ER trauma kits to lab tubes, by setting par levels, ordering on group buying contracts and checking in shipments.
Care and support 17
Case Manager
A hospital case manager is the RN who checks if each patient should be an inpatient or in observation, and plans how they go home.
Dietary Aide
A hospital dietary aide builds each patient's tray to match the diet order, texture and allergies on the ticket, delivers it, and serves the staff cafeteria.
Environmental Services Technician
A hospital environmental services technician cleans and disinfects patient rooms, the ER, restrooms and public areas, following the isolation sign on each door.
Infection Preventionist
A hospital infection preventionist tracks infections that start in the hospital, checks hand washing and cleaning, and teaches staff how to stop germs from spreading.
Licensed Practical Nurse
A licensed practical nurse in a small rural hospital cares mostly for inpatients and swing bed patients, with an RN directing the care.
Medical Laboratory Technician
A hospital medical laboratory technician runs the blood, urine and blood bank tests that doctors use to find and treat illness.
Nurse Practitioner
In a critical access hospital, a nurse practitioner sees ER patients, admits and rounds on inpatients and swing bed patients, and may staff the rural health clinic.
Patient Care Technician
A patient care technician gives hands-on care to inpatient, swing bed and ER patients, working at the direction of the RNs.
Patient Transporter
A hospital patient transporter moves patients by wheelchair, stretcher or bed between the ER, imaging, the lab, therapy and the inpatient unit, and wheels discharged patients out to their ride.
Pharmacist
A pharmacist at a critical access hospital checks medication orders and runs the pharmacy, often as the pharmacist in charge on its state license.
Pharmacy Technician
A hospital pharmacy technician keeps the drug cabinets on every unit stocked, counts controlled substances and prepares IV doses for the pharmacist to check.
Physical Therapist
At a small rural hospital, the physical therapist gets inpatients moving after surgery or illness and runs the rehab swing bed patients come for.
Plant Operations Technician
A hospital plant operations technician tests the emergency generator, checks fire alarms, sprinklers and fire doors, and keeps the boilers, air handlers, water and medical gas systems working.
Radiologic Technologist
A hospital radiologic technologist takes X-rays, and often CT scans, for ER, inpatient and outpatient patients.
Registered Nurse
On one shift at a critical access hospital, a registered nurse may triage chest pain in the ER and then admit a pneumonia patient to the inpatient unit.
Respiratory Therapist
A respiratory therapist in a critical access hospital answers every code and breathing emergency, from the ER to the swing beds.
Security Officer
A hospital security officer patrols the building and parking lots, locks and checks doors, and stands by in the ER when someone gets upset.
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