WOS 064 - Basic Math Skills for the Health Care Worker

1 Continuing Education Unit (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable students to learn the math required in allied health courses and in the health care field. Topics to be covered include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; fraction and decimals; converting fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions; using the metric system for measurements; and setting up basic algebraic equations.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions;
add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals;
convert basic measurements by the metric system; and
use basic algebraic equations to solve health care problems