Certificates/Less-than-1-year Certificates in Health Unit Coordinator + Ward Clerk: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of nurses or ward supervisors, to perform routine administrative and reception duties in a patient care unit within a hospital or other health care facility. Includes instruction in receiving and directing visitors, transcribing medical and nursing orders, preparing requisition forms, scheduling patient appointments and procedures, monitoring patients and personnel, and interpersonal skills.
Program Description Unit Health Coordinators are responsible for assisting with admitting, transferring and discharging of patients, maintaining patient records and taking over-the-phone physician orders. Graduates can be found in hospitals, clinics and nursing homes.
Health Unit Coordinators (HUC) coordinate patient services in health care facilities. They function under the supervision of an RN responsible for the management of a nursing unit. Health Unit Coordinators are crucial to the communications within the health care unit. They initiate records for new patients, record abbreviations and symbols appropriately, transcribe physicians' orders, perform clerical functions for admission, discharge and transfer...
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The Health Unit Coordinator curriculum prepares the individual to perform routine clerical and receptionist tasks in an inpatient or outpatient health care facility. The Health Unit Coordinator organizes the activities for the unit and manages nonclinical functions to enhance the delivery of health care.
The course work includes material management of the unit; transcription of the health care teams orders; health record management; inter department...
The Health Unit Coordinator Certificate program prepares persons to perform secretarial and management skills in the hospital, long-term care facilities or out-patient clinics. Transcribing doctors‘ written orders, typing, ordering supplies, answering the telephone, working with computers and communicating with patients, visitors and staff are typical activities.
The 13-week program has eight weeks of classroom theory and five weeks of clinical practice...
The Multicompetency Health Technician program at Cincinnati State offers a flexible, innovative curriculum designed to meet the needs of a changing health care marketplace. Students will be trained to perform multiple functions in more than one discipline while working towards the completion of an associate‘s degree. The associate‘s degree program allows students to select from several certificate programs and areas of study, including:
The program is designed to introduce the student to the clerical aspects of the hospital unit coordinator or ward clerk, liaison between the inpatient and the medical professionals in a hospital or other medical facility, and to familiarize the student with basic procedures and communication skills.
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