About Health Unit Coordinator
Learn medical terminology and train to transcribe physician orders, understand medication orders, communicate, and assist medical professionals in a variety of ways
The Health Unit Coordinator Program is a credit course. By studying to be a Health Unit Coordinator, you will learn medical terminology by studying prefixes, suffixes, and word roots as well as medical abbreviations, and be introduced to body structures and functions. During the course, you will complete 20 hours of on-the-job training at a local hospital which provides valuable experience in a working environment.
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Health unit coordinators work in hospitals, nursing homes, or other health facilities performing tasks that support patients, physicians, nursing staff, and other departments. They help to keep the facility organized and coordinate the communication between patients and medical staff.
As a coordinator, you may greet and check-in patients, schedule appointments and/or procedures, and perform clerical duties. Other days you might compile patients' charts, transcribe physicians' orders, and assist with birth or death certificates. Much of your work is performed under the supervision of registered physicians or nurses. Other duties may include ordering medical records, ordering supplies, and preparing forms for admission and discharge of patients.