May 01, 2024  
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HUC 120 - Health Unit Procedures II


Lecture Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 18 Credits: 8

Description: This course is a study of non-nursing hospital procedures in addition to an anatomy component which includes a systems review. The course also covers practical applications and clinical settings as they relate to the coordination of a nursing unit.

Prerequisite(s): Take HUC 110  with a minimum grade of B and take AHS 102  and AHS 170  with a minimum grade of C.
Course Topics:
  • Responsibilities regarding admissions, pre-operative, and post-operative procedures
  • Responsibilities regarding discharging patient (including deaths) and the transfer of patients within the hospital and to other medical facilities
  • Responsibilities in completing the transcription of physicians’ orders
  • Basic human structure, diseases, and disorders of the body
  • Transcribing physicians’ orders relating to admissions, discharges, transfers, pre-operative, and post-operative patients
  • Transcribing physicians’ orders relating to treatments, activities, dietary, medications, laboratory, diagnostic imaging, other diagnostic studies and miscellaneous items
  • Clinical practicum

Textbooks:
Textbook information can be found on the Book Inn website
Required Materials:
  • Notebooks
  • Paper
  • Pencils
  • Fine point red and black pen for graphing
  • Uniforms
  • Lab coat with Health Unit Coordinating patch

Grading System:
An overall grade of C or higher is required for transferability.

A =  90 - 100
B =   80 - 89
C =   70 - 79
D =   60 - 69
F =     0 - 59


Student Learning Outcomes:
  1. Identify the Health Unit Coordinator’s responsibilities regarding admitting, discharging and transferring of patients. 
  2. Recognize basic human structure and function. 
  3. Describe the transcription procedure for each classification and category of physicians’s orders. 
  4. Practice independently on the nursing unit as an entry level Health Unit Coordinator. 

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2023-2024