Certificate - Health Unit Coordinator 

A Health Unit Coordinator (HUC) is an essential member of a healthcare team with nonclinical responsibilities who manages all nonclinical tasks on hospital nursing units. Responsibilities include coordinating the activities of the nursing staff, doctors, hospital diagnostic departments, patients, and the visitors to the nursing unit. Health Unit Coordinators are skilled in transcribing physician orders for patient treatment, preparing patient charts, maintaining statistical reports, and much more. It is one of the more key positions on the nursing unit. Health Unit Coordinators may also be employed in emergency departments, doctor's offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and long-term care facilities to assist the nursing staff with clerical duties related to patients health records and coordination of treatment.

This program is designed to prepare students to demonstrate the following program outcomes:
Health Unit Coordinator Short Term Certificate Outcomes.pdf

  
 Suggested Semester Sequence

First Semester		Credits
MA-1020	Medical Terminology I	3
MA-2010	Medical Terminology II	2
ENG-1010	College Composition I	3
IT-1010	Introduction to Microcomputer Applications	3
HIM-1060	Health Unit Coordinator	3
	Total	14

Program Total		Credits
		14

 

	Notes
	MA-1020 must be completed prior to beginning the HUC program.