Health Unit Coordinator

Catalog description

Specific application of health unit coordinating duties and responsibilities relating to entry-level positions. Basic information with emphasis on clerical tasks: patient processing for admissions, transfers, discharges, charts, preoperative, postoperative, scheduling and processing orders. Accuracy and appropriate understanding with physician, nursing, and dietary treatment orders. Accuracy in transcribing medication orders, laboratory orders and other diagnostic orders. Emphasis on Allied Health professional principles.