Nocturnist
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A Nocturnist is a specialist hospital-based doctor who only works overnight. Some nocturnists are trained in internal medicine, and have experience in hospital medicine. However, there are nocturnists trained in other specialties, such as psychiatry. The main role of a nocturnist is to admit patients from an emergency room, and to cross-cover previously admitted inpatients, through the night. A typical nocturnist works from 7pm to 7am.
The main advantages to a hospital from employing a nocturnist are:
- Improved patient safety
- Improved quality of care to inpatients
- No "on-call" for physicans at home
- Immediate admission and history & physical of patients waiting to be admitted.
- Immediate decompression of an emergency room
- Decreased length of stay
- Increased patient satisfaction
Nocturnists were first described in literature by Dr. Aman D. Sabharwal MD in The Hospitalist in 2005.
[edit] References
Sabharwal, Aman, "Life as a Nocturnist", in The Hospitalist, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.43-44
There is a website for nocturnist was first developed by Ritesh Patel,M.D www.nocturnist.com
[edit] External links
- Western US Nocturnist Positions
- Nocturnist.com, owned by Dr. Ritesh D. Patel, MD
- Sabharwal, Aman, "Life as a Nocturnist", in The Hospitalist, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.43-44
- Sabharwal, Aman, et.al. [http://www.psqh.com/novdec05/bed-utilization.html New Roles Improve
Bed Utilization]. Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare.
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