2 courses with the subject AHN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
AHN 106Patient Care Assisting Techniques
This course is designed to teach the student the skills necessary to function as a patient care assistant in hospitals and ambulatory care facilities. The role of the patient care assistant has evolved and expanded to include diagnostic testing skills that are performed under the supervision of the professional nurse or other licensed health professional. These skills include phlebotomy, recording electrocardiography, applying basic oxygen therapy, pulse oximetry, measuring blood glucose levels, and collection and processing various body fluids for testing.
- Subject
- AHN
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Catalog
- 2025-2026 Catalog
- Source
- catalog.dccc.edu
AHN 200Excellence in Care-Nursing Assistant Program
Delaware County Community College's "Excellence in Care" Nursing Assistant Program is a 133-hour intensive course in accordance with the regulatory guidelines established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It includes, 48 hours of didactic, 25 hours of simulation laboratory activities, and 60 hours of clinical experience at an approved long term care facility. This course prepares students for employment in acute care, acute rehab, hospice, home health care and long-term care facilities. In addition to preparing students clinically, this course emphasizes leadership skills, service excellence values, problem solving/decision making, cultural sensitivity, interpersonal and civility skills in the workplace, professionalism/employability skills, conflict resolution, and time and stress management. Students completing this course are qualified to test with the American Red Cross and placed on the Pennsylvania Nurse Aide Registry. Departmental approval is required to enroll in the course to comply with federal and state legislative requirements- OBRA and Act 14, respectively. NOTE Prerequisites: High School diploma or GED. Students must meet DCCC's clinical and physical program requirements and therefore departmental approval is required. INT 100 is strongly encouraged.
- Subject
- AHN
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2025-2026
- Catalog
- 2025-2026 Catalog
- Source
- catalog.dccc.edu
Source: Delaware County Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
