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Nov 21, 2024
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MA 1204 - Quantitative Reasoning for Health Care Professionals4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course addresses mathematical concepts and calculations frequently encountered by health care professionals. Topics include fundamental operations; ratio, proportion and percentage; magnitude and scale; manipulation and conversion of units; rounding and scientific notation. Additional topics include solving equations involving ratio, proportion and rate; interpretation of graphs; evaluation of formulas, including formulas encountered in statistics. (prereq: only open to Nursing students)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Perform arithmetic operations involving ratio, proportion, percentage and rate
- Use rounding principles and scientific notation to report results of calculations
- Interpret numerical values as magnitude, quantity and scale
- Interpret and convert units
- Solve and interpret equations involving ratio, proportion, percentage and rate
- Solve and interpret applied problems relating to concentrations and mixtures
- Interpret graphs involving time relationships
- Evaluate formulas encountered in pediatric medication and statistics
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Fundamental operations involving fractions, decimals and percents
- Solving equations involving ratio, percentage and rate
- Conversion of units between systems of measurement of magnitude, quantity and scale including temperature, angles and volume
- Health care applications involving ratio, proportion, rate and percentage including dosage calculations, angle measurement and IV rates
- Read and interpret time series graphs such as EKG
- Evaluate formulas commonly encountered in statistics
Coordinator
Edward Griggs
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