Description
This course is an introductory course in chemistry and microbiology for LPN Transition students who are planning life/health related careers requiring some familiarization with general, organic, and biochemistry. This course stresses the applications of chemistry to health related careers. Topics of study include the metric system, states of matter, elementary atomic and molecular structure, introduction to inorganic and organic chemistry, the Periodic Table, basic laboratory procedures, and descriptive chemistry as it relates to everyday experiences. The course also includes a basic understanding of microbiology to provide the student with a basic understanding of the effects of the pathogen on normal human tissue including the most common diseases caused by specific pathogens and the usual signs and symptoms produced in the hosts.
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