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AHU 100 - Health Unit Coordinator Theory and Techniques
This course is designed to enable students to acquire knowledge and skill necessary to function as a health unit coordinator in a health care facility.
Students who have successfully completed this course should be able to:
- Discuss the organizational structure of a health care facility.
- Describe hospital policies and procedures affecting the job performance of the health unit coordinator in the health care facility.
- Discuss the process of communication.
- Describe the receptionist’s duties of the health unit coordinator in the nursing station.
- Describe the job responsibility of the health unit coordinator in the nursing station.
- Describe the job responsibility of the health unit coordinator in maintaining a patient’s chart.
- Describe the responsibilities of the health unit coordinator in the admission transfer or discharge of a patient.
- Describe the responsibility of the health unit coordinator in transcribing physician’s orders.
- List the guidelines for job placement of the health unit coordinator.
- Apply the principles of the health unit coordinator in a clinical setting.
Prerequisite or co-requisite: AHM 233 - Medical Terminology AHM 100 - Orientation to Healthcare, AHM 130 - Medical Coding Concepts for Allied Health, DPR 100 - Introduction to Computers.
6 hours theory each week 1/2 semester 12 hours clinical laboratory each week 1/2 semester 6 credits