Geriatric - Salary, Career

How much does an Geriatric earn

A Geriatric earns between $2.828 and $15.892 per month, with an average monthly salary of $7.667 and a median salary of $7.074 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 53 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).

Salary ranges for the Geriatric
	Monthly Salary	Annual Salary	Salary Per Week	Hourly Salary
Average wage	7.667	92.008	1.917	72
1º Quartile	2.828	33.931	707	27
Median Salary	7.074	84.890	1.769	67
3º Quartile	12.120	145.441	3.030	114
Higher Salary	15.892	190.706	3.973	149

Professional job categories

Science and arts professionals
- professionals of biological sciences, health
- - medical professionals
- - - clinical doctors

Related Positions:

Main workplaces

Clinical doctors the positions of this CBO family exercise their functions in sectors whose activities refer to health and social services, teaching, research and development. In general, they work on their own, as self-employed, without permanent supervision. They are organized individually and in a work team, developing activities in closed environments, during irregular working hours. Exception made is professionals who work in the Family Health Strategy Program, where they perform their duties as employees, with occasional supervision and fulfill the weekly workload provided for in a specific Ordinance. They may work in uncomfortable positions for long periods and, due to the nature and level of responsibility inherent in the role, may be subject to constant stress. In some occupations, professionals may be subject to the action of toxic, chemical, radioactive and biological materials.

What does it take to work in the field of Clinical doctors

These occupations are performed by professionals with higher education in Medicine, accredited by the Regional Council of Medicine (CRM). The full exercise of functions takes place after a period of one to two years of professional experience and three to four years for the anthroposophic doctor. For the exercise of the function in the Family Health Strategy Program, no previous experience is necessary.

Functions and activities of Geriatric

Clinical doctors must:

demonstrate personal skills;

implement health promotion actions;

coordinate health programs and services;

perform medical expertise, audits and investigations;

promoting family health;

difusing medical knowledge;

treat patients and clients;

perform medical expertise, audits and inquiries;

coordinating health programs and services;

perform medical consultation and care;

treating patients and clients;

perform medical consultation and assistance;

diffusion of medical knowledge;

elaborate medical documents;

promote family health;

spreading medical knowledge;

diffusion medical knowledge;

perform expertise, audits and medical inquiries;

perform medical consultation and service;

perform consultation and medical assistance;

implementing health promotion actions;

perform investigations, audits and medical inquiries;

Activities

implement worker safety and protection measures;

prescribe hygienic-dietary measures;

cultivating organs and tissues;

inspect equipment and facilities;

formulate expert questions;

perform complementary exams;

specify inputs;

perform treatment with physical agents;

writing scientific papers;

promote health campaigns;

demonstrate altruism;

organize scientific meetings;

develop equipment;

demonstrate impartiality of judgment;

establishing medical-hospital committees;

participate in association boards, professional associations and health councils;

organizing scientific meetings;

performing treatment with biological agents;

perform gene therapy;

demonstrate ability to provide humanized care;

request interconsultations;

implement environmental health measures;

performing gene therapy;

assisting the regulation of medical activities;

supervise health team;

organizing continuing education courses;

implementing environmental health measures;

assist the regulation of medical activities;

issue certificates;

dispatch time;

provide testimonials;

issue reports;

elaborate informative and normative material;

establishing a health action plan;

implanting orthoses and prostheses;

follow the user's therapeutic plan;

guarding organs and tissues;

raise diagnostic hypotheses;

promoting health campaigns;

implement biosecurity measures;

distribute tasks;

describe medical actions;

participate in continuing education activities;

perform anamnesis;

to be responsible for all services provided to the enrolled population;

practicing psychotherapy;

issue opinions;

developing research in medicine;

monitor health status of hospitalized patients;

monitor the user's therapeutic plan;

disclose information in the media;

perform organ and tissue transplants;

identify users' needs;

deliver preventive treatments;

manage urgent and emergency situations;

elaborate reports;

demonstrate ability to adapt language;

fill in compulsory notification forms;

perform treatment with chemical agents;

perform autopsies;

collect testimonials;

establish health action plan;

developing procedures;

issue prescriptions;

supervise instrumental propaedeutics;

serving users in ubss, in homes or community spaces;

perform physical examination;

assisting childbirth;

select patients in specific situations;

issuing certificates;

examine medical documents;

planning treatment of clients and patients;

monitor the health status of hospitalized patients;

setting up service schedule;

provide consultancy and advice;

discuss diagnosis, prognosis and treatment with patients, clients, guardians and family members;

select work team;

updating registration information;

monitor cognitive/emotional development of the student/educator;

demonstrate receptiveness;

supervise medical training;

supervise medical acts;

coordinating the care of users;

request additional exams;

indicating the need for hospitalization;

elaborate protocols for medical procedures;

participate in the management of inputs;

mapping area of operation;

to raise diagnostic hypotheses;

perform home visits;

participate in planning activities;

demonstrate tolerance;

dispatch work;

implementing worker safety and protection measures;

registering activities in information systems;

demonstrate ability to interpret verbal and non-verbal language;

interpret clinical examination data and complementary exams;

elaborate image documents;

participate in meetings, congresses and other scientific events;

setting up a service schedule;

indicating non-drug therapies;

elaborate standard operating procedures;

evaluate expert knowledge;

redefine the disease for the patient by individualizing its meaning;

demonstrate ability to deal with adverse situations;

promote comprehensive care;

practicing interventional procedures;

carry out actions to prevent injuries and cures;

perform in-office assistance;

demonstrate empathy;

assist childbirth;

elaborate medical records;

identify groups, families and individuals exposed to risks;

prepare teaching material;

establishing prognosis;

demonstrate selective attention capacity;

define actions according to local priorities;

stimulating the patient to develop autonomy and self-care;

demonstrate ability to listen;

define territory of action;

organizing health promotion groups;

supervise instrumental workup;

evaluate biographical moment;

establish prognosis;

diagnose the health status of patients and clients;

manage financial resources;

prescribe treatment;

rehabilitate patients and clients (biopsychosocial conditions);

demonstrate ability to preserve medical confidentiality;

prepare research projects;

teaching classes;

elaborate reports;

perform hospital visits;

archive documents;

forward users to other professionals;

promoting educational activities;

evaluate medical acts;

performing gene therapy;

set up service schedule;

perform instrumental workup;

answer expert questions;

assist in the regulation of medical activities;

notify diseases, injuries and situations of local importance;

indicate treatment;

practicing clinical interventions;

issue declarations;

identify partners and resources available in the community;

develop procedures;

track prevalent diseases;

inspect work environments;

perform treatment with biological agents;

prescribing drugs, medicines, herbal and anthroposophic;

guard organs and tissues;

demonstrate ability to work in a team;

remove organs and tissues;

interpret data from clinical examination and complementary exams;

demonstrate quickness of perception;

participate in team evaluations;

demonstrate medical actions;

encouraging community participation;

promote educational activities;

perform community health diagnosis;

demonstrate leadership ability;

setting up a scale of services;

prescribe immunization;

elaborate image documents;

perform an active search for local situations;

promote vector and zoonosis control actions;

demonstrate ability to make decisions;

perform urgent and emergency care;

Sectors that hire Geriatric the most in the job market

hospital care activities
activities of associations for the defense of social rights
outpatient medical activity with resources for performing complementary exams
service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
outpatient care activities
health management support activities
other human health care activities
other personal service activities
outpatient medical activity restricted to consultations
general public administration

Geriatric - Career description, activities, functions and salary