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Medical Math
Medical Math
Grade: 10-12 Credit: 0.5
This course provides students with the interpretive skills to read, decode and process a variety of prescriptions requiring mathematical computations. The course introduces the basic concepts needed to calculate oral, parenteral, pediatric and elderly drug dosages. Skills for interpreting intravenous flow rates, compounding, commercial and office management calculations are also included. Students with an interest in becoming a certified nursing assistant, medical assistant, medical, pharmacy, or dental technician, nurse, dentist physician or pharmacist will find this course beneficial.
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