4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur)
NU2E02 Statistics for Healthcare Professionals (5 ECTS)
Learning Outcomes
Following completion of this module the student should be able to:
- Describe different types of data.
- Provide a description of a data set.
- Display a data set graphically.
- Compute basic probabilities.
- Form a basic hypothesis (question of the data) and test that hypothesis (answer the question posed) for different types of data.
- Make predictions based on the data
- Compare two different sets of data
Module Learning Aims
The World Health Organisation, the United Nations, the Department of Health and Children and all major
international and national organisations have recognised the need for healthcare professions to base
treatments, intervention, policy and planning on sound evidence. Part of this evidence is derived from
the analysis and compilation of appropriate statistics. In today’s ever changing professional environment
it is essential that healthcare professionals are comfortable working with data and deriving and
interpreting basic statistics. This module aims to stimulate your interest in, and knowledge and
appreciation of healthcare statistics. It will provide you with some key transferable skills that will be
useful in all professions. The emphasis in the course will be on applying the techniques to healthcare
data and on understanding and interpreting results in real life data sets.
Recommended Reading List
- I. Scot and D. Mazhindu. Statistics for Health Care Professionals; An Introduction. Sage, UK.
- R.A. Johnson and G.K. Bhattacharya, Statistics: Principles and Methods. Wiley .
- Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, David S. Moore, George P. McCabe, Oxford Freeman.
* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning.