This unit establishes the foundational math knowledge and professional context needed for safe medication calculation in medical assisting. Students will review arithmetic and fraction skills, learn systems of measurement and unit conversion, and interpret basic prescription components to prepare for more advanced dosage and administration units.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze how foundational arithmetic skills and professional expectations apply to common healthcare tasks related to medication safety and documentation
- Apply whole-number and decimal operations to solve routine healthcare calculation problems, including dosing, scheduling, and basic inventory tasks
- Demonstrate conversion and equivalence among fractions, decimals, and percentages, and perform fraction operations used in dosage computations
- Evaluate and convert between customary and metric systems and accurately interpret prescription elements to compute single-dose medication amounts
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 5 Lessons
- 30 hours
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- Unit 1 — Medical Dosage Math Fundamentals5
- 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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