Health Unit Coordinators
What does a HUC do?
A Health Unit Coordinator helps to keep facilities or nursing stations organized by coordinating the care of all the patients on a particular unit, is a liaison between the patient and the medical staff, and is in charge of programs to promote, advance, and improve a health care unit. Instructional topics include:
- Orientation to hospitals, medical centers, and health care. Personal and professional skills, communication in the health care setting, prioritizing orders and tasks, ensuring patient confidentiality (HIPAA).
- The patients’ electronic record or paper chart, performing routine quality assurance on charts.
- Health unit coordinating procedures inclusive of coordinating diagnostic testing, laboratory testing, and radiology.
- Admissions, discharge orders, and reports.
- Introduction to anatomical structures.
- Medical terms learned and practiced, informatics systems, and knowledge of staffing and budgeting.
- BLS certified.
- Learning to be part of medical team.
- Leadership skills.
- When students turn 18 years old, they will be qualified to take the National Health Unit Coordinating Exam.