Health Unit Coordinating - Monitoring Techniques
Certificate
Program Start Date: Fall or summer terms
Minimum Program Length: 3 consecutive terms, day
Program Description
Health unit coordinating students gain skills to perform administrative duties for medical units, other departments in hospitals and various health care facilities. Students utilize knowledge of medical terminology, medical procedures and diagnostic tests to requisition hospital or medical services. In addition to Health Unit Coordinating duties, students will enhance their skills by learning to provide cardiac monitoring techniques which allow them to have expertise in dual areas.
Gainful Employment Disclosure information
This program falls under Gainful Employment Disclosure regulations, a
rule by the U.S. Education Department. Each program that falls under these regulations is required to report:
- Occupation, SOC code, and links to profile on O*NET
- Costs – tuition/fees and books/supplies
- On-time graduation (completion) rate for program.
- Job placement rate for students completing program
- Median
loan debt incurred by students as provided by ED (identified separately
as Title IV loan debt and private educational loan debt)
Practical Experience
Students develop interpersonal and technical skills that are vital to their role as communicators with physicians or health care personnel, patients and patients' families. They acquire administrative competencies including transcribing physicians' orders and monitoring patients with cardiac involvements. The clinical rotations include hospitals, ambulatory care centers and longterm care facilities during the same term.
Professional Opportunities
Monitor technicians, unit secretaries, clerks in other hospital areas, receptionists in physicians' offices and other medical settings.
Unique Aspects
Graduates are eligible to apply to take the National Certification Examination for Health Unit Coordinators.
EEDA Career Cluster
Health Sciences
Course Requirements for Health Unit Coordinating
Prerequisites (followed by number of credit hours)
AHS 102 Medical Terminology (3)
A. General Education Courses (followed by number of credit hours)
CPT 101 Introduction to Computers (3)
ENG 165 Professional Communications (3)
IDS 101 Human Thought and Learning (3)
B. Major Courses (followed by number of credit hours)
AHS 170 Fundamentals of Disease (3)
AHS 177 Cardiac Monitoring Applications (4)
ASH 179 Cardiac Monitoring Practicum (4)
HUC 110 Health Unit Procedures I (7)
HUC 120 Health Unit Procedures II (8)
C. Electives and/or Other Additional Courses Required for Graduation
None
Minimum semester credit hours required for graduation: 38