Course Syllabus - LUMHS Post RN BSN Bio–Statistic

LUMHS Post RN BSN – Biostatistics Course Syllabus

Posted by POST RN BSN Resources · Course No. 717 · Year-II, Semester-I (Overall Semester – III)

Course syllabus of Biostatistics for the LUMHS Post RN BS Nursing Program, as listed in the original post. Every unit has a Click for Model Answer button that opens the matching solved answers. The solved answers are study aids, not an official LUMHS answer key.

Units in this post

1. Unit-I: Introduction to Biostatistics
2. Unit-II: Scales of measurement
3. Unit-III: Presenting data
4. Unit-IV: Summarizing Data
5. Unit-V: Making Inference from data

BSN Solved Biostatistics – Unit I Model Answers

BSN Solved Biostatistics – Unit II Model Answers

BSN Solved Biostatistics – Unit III Model Answers

BSN Solved Biostatistics – Unit IV Model Answers

BSN Solved Biostatistics – Unit V Model Answers

Bonus: Biostatistics for Nurses – Facts, Skills, Uses, Benefits and Hurdles

Course Syllabus

LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES (LUMHS)
Post RN BS Nursing Program

Course Syllabus

Title

Biostatistics

Course No.

717

Time

3 Credits

Placement

Year-II, Semester-I (Overall Semester – III)

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is designed to provide post RN students with the knowledge and skills to present and analyze data I community and make an inference/ decision about a given population. In addition, students will be introduced to basic concepts of Biostatistics.

OBJECTIVES:

At the completion of the course, the participants will be able to;

• Illustrate the use of scientific reasoning.
• Identify different kinds of data.
• Demonstrate how to organize and present data.
• Illustrate steps involved in calculating large samples.
• Understand methods of statistical inference.
• Compute a statistical test to compare the difference of two means.

TEACHING/ LEARNING STRATEGIES:

Lectures, Small group discussion, Presentation, tutorial and Self studies

EVALUATION CRITERIA:

• Assignment – 10%
• Internal evaluation – 10%
• Final Exam – 80%

References:

• Saunders, B. D. & Trapp, R. C. (1994). Basic and clinical biostatistics. (2nd. Ed.) New Delhi: Prentice – Hall

Course Content – Biostatistics

Unit-I

Introduction to Biostatistics

• Definition of Biostatistics
• Scope of biostatistics in health care
• Logic of scientific reasoning: inductive and deductive

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Unit-II

Scales of measurement

• Nominal
• Ordinal
• Numerical
• Ratio
• Percentages, proportions, rates

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Unit-III

Presenting data

• Tables and graphs for nominal and ordinal data (frequency contingency table, bar chart)
• Tables and graphs for numerical data
• Stem and leaf plot
• Frequency tables
• Histograms, box and whisker plots and frequency
• Polygons

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Unit-IV

Summarizing Data

• Central tendency
• Mean medial and mode
• Measures of spread (dispersion)
• Normal distribution
• Range
• Standard Deviation
• Percentiles
• When to use different measures of dispersion
• Types of measures to use with nominal data

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Unit-V

Making Inference from data

• Z- Test
• Conflict interval
• P value
• t – test
• Chi- square test

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Bio-statistics - Bonus For Nurses

A whole-course article on why biostatistics matters for nurses, covering facts, skills, practical uses, benefits and common hurdles.

Read the Bonus Article

Post RN BSN Biostatistics Course | POST RN BSN NURSING RESOURCES

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