HIT 139 - Math for Health Care Professionals

3.00 Credit(s)

Designed for Allied Health Care profession majors. The course covers general development of skills involving computations of fractions, decimals, percents, ratios, proportions, basic algebra equations, mean, median, and mode. Builds critical thinking skills for success in occupations that will later require algebra skills in understanding dosage calculations and conversions between metric, apothecary, household and other systems of measurement. Advanced topics will include: infection rate computations and survival statistics. The student will be introduced to data dispersion interpretation and analysis involving range, variance, and standard deviation. Applied topics such as patient accounts, Medicare and non-Medicare insurance billing, payroll, and computing FTEs in healthcare staffing will help build the applied math skills needed in healthcare supervision and management. 59.4 Lec. Hrs.