This unit establishes essential numeracy and measurement skills needed for safe medication dosage calculations and entry into the healthcare field. Students will refresh arithmetic and fraction fluency, learn common measurement systems and unit-conversion methods, and practice reading and interpreting basic prescription orders to prepare for applied dosage computation in later units.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze personal numeracy strengths and gaps related to healthcare medication calculations and create a targeted plan to improve foundational math skills.
- Demonstrate accurate use of whole numbers, decimals, ratios, and percentages to solve arithmetic problems commonly encountered in clinical dosage scenarios.
- Apply fraction operations and convert between improper fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals to compute medication amounts and concentrations in practice problems.
- Evaluate and interpret common prescription notations and abbreviations and apply unit-conversion techniques (metric, household, apothecary) to calculate correct medication doses.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 5 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 1 — Foundations of Medication Math5
- 1.1Brushing Up on Your Math Skills and Entering the Healthcare Field20 mins
- 1.2Using Numbers and Arithmetic20 mins
- 1.3Getting Familiar with Fractions and Their Fanatic Forms20 mins
- 1.4Getting Familiar with Systems of Measurement and Unit Conversions20 mins
- 1.5The Prescription: Just What the Doctor Ordered20 mins
Instructor
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