2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 143
Upon successful completion of this course, the student
should be able to:
• Install and troubleshoot a server installation.
• Identify and explain the components of a Upgrade
and/or Migration.
• Modify server components for server management and
optimization.
• Configure and troubleshoot client management.
• Design an eDirectory structure.
• Define and manage IP and Internet services.
• Explain database repair procedures using various
NetWare tools.
Prereq. NET 230
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
NET 232
Novel Network Design &
Implementation
This course provides students the necessary skills to
design and create a NetWare 6.x. implementation plan.
Students will consider design strategies and implementations
and complete a NetWare installation. Students
will also learn Novell server tools. The class will focus
on Novell's eDirectory including preparation, tree
design, troubleshooting and accessibility.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student
should be able to:
• Perform a Netware 6.x server install.
• Develop a migration plan based on tools provided
with NetWare 6.x.
• Define advanced Novell Storage Management
and implementation.
• Describe iFolder configuration management.
• Develop a Novell Cluster Services solution.
• Describe and manage Novell troubleshooting tools.
• Describe and implement Novell eDirectory preparation,
tree design, troubleshooting and accessibility.
Prereq. NET 231
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
NET 241
Network Protocols TCP/IP
This course gives the students the skills necessary to
procure an Internet address, configure a Subnet mask,
assign IP addresses and troubleshoot common IP address
problems. The course also gives students the skills
necessary to use common TCP/IP applications including
Telnet and FTP.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Explain the differences between the DoD Protocol model
and the OSI model.
• Discuss data multiplexing, switching, bridging and
routing technologies.
• Explain IP addressing using dotted decimal notation
and assign IP addresses.
• Identify and troubleshoot datagram delivery, routing
tables, Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) and Internet •
Control Message Protocol (ICMP).
• Discuss data stream maintenance, windowing, and host
and network file setups.
• Identify and troubleshoot Domain Name Services (DNS),
File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol
(TFTP), Telnet, Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
• Configure hosts, networks, gateways, protocols
and services.
• Discuss BOOTP, DHCP, SLIP and PPP.
• Discuss planning technologies for router configuration,
IP tunneling, DHCP servers and SNMP.
Prereq. or Coreq. NET 231
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
(NUS) Nursing
NUS 102 Nursing Mathematics:
Dosage Calculation and Drug Preparation
Nursing Mathematics covers adult drug preparation,
dosage calculation, and intravenous fluids and medications
administration. Measurement requirements, system
conversions, oral and parenteral dosage calculations, and
intravenous fluid flow rates are covered in detail. Nursing
implications for drug administration are emphasized in
every unit including a brief overview of drug label interpretation
and pediatric and geriatric dosage considerations.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Calculate mathematical problems working with fractions,
decimals, and percents.
• Solve drug dosage problems using ratio and proportion.
• Use system conversions (metric and household) for
volume and weight problems.
• Calculate oral and parenteral dosage problems in the
same system and in different systems.
• Measure drugs administered in units.
• Identify pediatric and geriatric considerations for
drug administration.
• Calculate intravenous fluid flow rates (drops per minute
and milliliters per hour) and infusion times.
• Identify abbreviations and symbols for drug preparation
and administration.
• Accurately read and interpret a drug label in relation to
a medication order.
Prereq. MAT 060
1 Credit 1 Weekly Lecture Hours
NUS 110
Fundamentals of Nursing
The nursing process is presented as the method
utilized by the nurse in health maintenance of individuals
across their life span and that of their families. Knowledge
and skills essential to nursing practice in meeting
individual's basic needs are emphasized. Clinical
laboratory experiences incorporate the use of advanced
technologies in order to provide competent care to
patients with common health maintenance needs.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify fundamental concepts of nursing practice used to
administer therapeutic nursing interventions to patients
of varied cultures across the life span.
• Identify how individuals respond to need interferences
to achieve and maintain an optimum level of wellness
on the health-illness continuum.
• Identify how an individual's basic needs serve as a motivator
for biophysical functioning and psychosocial behavior.
• Implement fundamental concepts of nursing practice to
promote and maintain health in patients.
• Demonstrate use of fundamental nursing skills utilizing
advanced technologies when caring for patients in
structured health care settings.
Coreq. BIO 150, ENG 100, PSY 140, NUS 102
8 Credits 4 Weekly Lecture Hours
8 Weekly Laboratory Hours
NUS 111 Nursing Concepts and
Practice I
Students are provided opportunities to integrate knowledge
of facts, principles, and advanced technologies acquired in
general and nursing education courses previously studied.
Application of biophysical and psychosocial factors form
the basis of assessing patient's needs, and diagnosing,
planning, implementing and evaluating the nursing care of
patients with common medical-surgical problems. Structured
clinical laboratory experiences are provided concurrent with
nursing theory.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Describe how interference with oxygenation affects
patients and influences the nursing process.
• Describe how interference with safety/security affects
patients and influences the nursing process.
• Describe how interference with the absorption and
utilization of nutrients affects patients and influences
the nursing process.
• Describe how need interference with regulatory function
affects patients and influences the nursing process.
• Describe how need interference with activity affects
patients and influences the nursing process.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills utilizing advanced
technologies when caring for patients with common
health problems in a variety of structured health
care settings.
Prereq. NUS 110, Coreq BIO 151
10 Credits 4 Weekly Lecture Hours
12 Weekly Laboratory Hours
NUS 205
Perioperative Nursing
The knowledge and technique necessary to assume
responsibilities of the perioperative nurse are emphasized
in this broad-based yet comprehensive orientation to the
operating room and the perioperative role. Standards of
patient care in the operating room are explored and
identified. Assessment of patient needs and implementation
of nursing interventions are emphasized. Collaborative
decision making is reviewed relative to total intraoperative
care. Subject material guides the learner to provide for
and contribute to patient safety through control of internal
and external environment, biological testing and product
evaluation, as well as to assist the patient with the
management of anxiety through the principles of biological,
physical and social sciences. The College recognizes the
standards of perioperative nursing practice of the AORN
as the conceptual basis of specialty practice in the OR.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Describe the psychosocial influences affecting the
patient's response to surgical intervention.
• Demonstrate knowledge necessary to implement the
perioperative role.
• Discuss principles of asepsis used in providing patient
care during the intraoperative period.
• Analyze the conceptual basis of role function as an
interdisciplinary team member in delivery of care to the
operative patient.
• Plan nursing activities that reflect the nursing process in
providing care to the patient undergoing surgical
intervention.
• Relate nursing, legal and ethical boundaries in the
practice of professional nursing in the operating room.
Prereq. RN Licensure or eligibility
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
NUS 206
Perioperative Preceptorship
The skills needed by the nurse to practice professional
nursing in the operating room are emphasized. Under the
tutelage of an operating-room nurse preceptor, with the
guidance of the College faculty facilitator, the learner is
introduced to the activities performed by the nurse in the
operating room throughout the patient's surgical experience.
Learners will function within the scope and multiple
dimensions of the perioperative role as defined in the
preceptor institution.
Working with guidelines developed by the College in
collaboration with a local AORN advisory board, the
preceptorship is a 15-day clinical practicum. Preceptors
are selected by the OR nurse manager in the preceptor
hospital. Preceptorship sites may be arranged by the
learner or selected from the College's preceptor affiliate
sites. Schedules for clinical activities are mutually
arranged by students and preceptor.