What is the difference between a health unit coordinator and a nursing unit secr!
Question: What is the difference between a health unit coordinator and a nursing unit secretary?
Please only answer this is you have prior or current experience in the med Field. Please try and answer all questions....thank you!
I have prior experience as a Licensed CNA but I've done all private duty and I'm sooo ready to move on. I have found two wonderful courses at my local Community College. One of the Schools courses is called Health unit coordinator and the other says Nursing unit secretary. Now when I looked them both up...they have the same duties but the Health unit coordinator's salary is more. Is there really a difference? Which course would you recommend me to take? Few last questions. Who sits at the station with the Health unit coordinator/Unit secretary and who do they directly report to? Would it be a RN?
I have prior experience as a Licensed CNA but I've done all private duty and I'm sooo ready to move on. I have found two wonderful courses at my local Community College. One of the Schools courses is called Health unit coordinator and the other says Nursing unit secretary. Now when I looked them both up...they have the same duties but the Health unit coordinator's salary is more. Is there really a difference? Which course would you recommend me to take? Few last questions. Who sits at the station with the Health unit coordinator/Unit secretary and who do they directly report to? Would it be a RN?
Answers:
Titles are cheap, and can be molded into anything.
Typically a unit secretary has no RN training, they are detailed to the phone and processing orders and keeping everything in order.
A coordinator is more likely someone with medical training, who is tasked to bigger issues like staffing, medical education, certifications / licenses, etc. Bigger salary for more education and responsibility.