What is a Unit Assistant Clerk?

Medical Assistant, STNA, or Health Unit Coordinator?

• Between a Medical assistant, STNA/CNA and HUC Who makes more money? And which job is the best? Also whats it like being a HUC (I know everyone will have different opinions but I want ...show more

• Answer:

  It really depends on the actual job description and facility that the above health care workers are employed in. For example, a Medical Assistant working for a small, single-physician practice is usually going to make less than her/his counterpart in a large, multi-physician practice. Next, a Student Nurse Extern working in a facility that allows them to do nearly all the things an RN does is going to make more than one that is working with the title of STNA. That really limits what she/he can do when they are working as a CNA in the hospital setting. A Health Unit Coordinator sounds like what we call Unit Secretaries, and they usually make around $11-16 an hour, base pay. The Student Nurse Externs in my OB unit are hired in at $15 an hour (plus shift and weekend differential)...regardless of their experience- it's a temporary position anyway. The Patient Care Techs in my unit make anywhere from $10-16 an hour base pay. The Medical Assistants in the OB practice I work occasionally in are around $12-15 an hour. The going pay for CNA's in the nursing homes in my city are around $9-14 depending on experience and what shift they are hired for.