Are the Health Unit Coordinators Trained Properly? (Video)

This is the story of how I became a Health Unit Coordinator. I applied for the job online and was called in for an interview. Before the interview, I had to take a typing test. I took the test and passed, then interviewed and got the job.  For the first two weeks of the job, the rest of the new HUCs and I were in a room for eight hours, learning medical terminology. Once we passed the...

Letting The Health Unit Coordinator Fail (Video)

About five years ago, I was sitting at the desk as a Health Unit Coordinator when a patient's wife spoke with me. She explained that she was a HUC many years ago and had one foolproof way to guarantee job security. "Don't teach the new HUCs everything that you know." She explained that they would get frustrated and quit if the new HUCs didn't know what they were doing. Or appear extremely...