LaFleur Brooks' Health Unit Coordinating

LaFleur Brooks’ Health Unit Coordinating is a textbook for students learning the responsibilities of a health unit coordinator in both traditional and electronic medical record environments. This seventh edition by Elaine A. Gillingham and Monica Wadsworth Seibel was published by Saunders in 2013 as a 592-page paperback.

Chapters cover tasks from greeting new patients and dealing with visitors to transcribing physicians’ orders and preparing patient charts, with step-by-step instructions for key procedures. Communication chapters include example boxes with real-life scenarios, and bad handwriting examples give practice in deciphering hard-to-read handwriting. This edition expands coverage of the electronic medical record/CPOE and how it is changing the health unit coordinator’s role.