DAVITA PCT EXAM | ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK | 2026/2027
| COMPLETE REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS
• How do you know numbing has taken effect? -✓✓ Blanching of the skin
• What germ causes the most infections in hemodialysis patients? -✓✓ MRSA
• True or false: Squeezing the BP cuff can damage the machine -✓✓ True
• What are possible consequences of poor or incomplete documentation? -✓✓ Attack on
your care
• Chlorine in the water used for hemodialysis causes? -✓✓ Hemolysis (which releases
potassium)
• Importance of limiting phosphorus/ when to take binders? -✓✓ Tingling, bone damage,
take with meal
• What is the role of the PCT prior to treatment initiation? -✓✓ Data Collection
• What is pericarditis? -✓✓ inflammation of the sac around the heart
• Why is wearing gloves so important? -✓✓ Decreases risk of hand contamination
• Site rotation/healing time -✓✓ 14 days (2 weeks)
• How long do we wait after administering the heparin bolus prior to treatment initation?
-✓✓ 3-5 minutes
• When do we test for hardness? -✓✓ At the end of each day
• What to use for Dry, itchy skin -✓✓ hyper fatted soaps and lotions
• What is the primary cause patients are anemic? -✓✓ Decreased production of
erythropoietin
• What factors influence v (volume)? -✓✓ sex, age, weight, height, amputations
• What is the most important intervention you can do to prevent HAI's? -✓✓ Hand
washing
, • What is included in pericarditis treatment? -✓✓ Decrease or stop heparin, give more
frequent dialysis
• What causes a pyrogen reaction? -✓✓ Endotoxins in the water
• What is the most common transmission route for HAI's? -✓✓ Contact transmission
• 17: 200-250
16: 250-350
15: 350-450
14: >450 -✓✓ Needle gauge and suggested BFR
• What do you do if a patient wants to get off early? -✓✓ educate and document, still
draw lab on habitual patients, MUST NOTIFY NURSE
• Lab draw mistakes that would falsely increase Kt/V -✓✓ not waiting the full 15 seconds
to draw the BUN
• 4 reasons we document in the medical record -✓✓ 1. proof that care was rendered
2. provides data continuity and planning of patient care
3. permanent legal record
4. communication tool
• Pre-treatment patient data collection/assessment -✓✓ Data collection: before initiation
Assessment: 30 minutes into treatment
• Post treatment data collection/assessments -✓✓ after treatment
-NOT DURING RINSEBACK
• What are the six items included in charting administered medications? -✓✓ REASON
FOR ADMINISTERING
• What are the 5 W's to be used when completing an AOR? -✓✓ who should report an
AOR
what type of incident
when should it be reported
where should they be reported
why
• What are the four consequences of sodium loading during dialysis? -✓✓ Thirsty
Increase Fluid Intake
Increased intradialytic weight gain
Increased ultrafiltration rate
| COMPLETE REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANSWERS
• How do you know numbing has taken effect? -✓✓ Blanching of the skin
• What germ causes the most infections in hemodialysis patients? -✓✓ MRSA
• True or false: Squeezing the BP cuff can damage the machine -✓✓ True
• What are possible consequences of poor or incomplete documentation? -✓✓ Attack on
your care
• Chlorine in the water used for hemodialysis causes? -✓✓ Hemolysis (which releases
potassium)
• Importance of limiting phosphorus/ when to take binders? -✓✓ Tingling, bone damage,
take with meal
• What is the role of the PCT prior to treatment initiation? -✓✓ Data Collection
• What is pericarditis? -✓✓ inflammation of the sac around the heart
• Why is wearing gloves so important? -✓✓ Decreases risk of hand contamination
• Site rotation/healing time -✓✓ 14 days (2 weeks)
• How long do we wait after administering the heparin bolus prior to treatment initation?
-✓✓ 3-5 minutes
• When do we test for hardness? -✓✓ At the end of each day
• What to use for Dry, itchy skin -✓✓ hyper fatted soaps and lotions
• What is the primary cause patients are anemic? -✓✓ Decreased production of
erythropoietin
• What factors influence v (volume)? -✓✓ sex, age, weight, height, amputations
• What is the most important intervention you can do to prevent HAI's? -✓✓ Hand
washing
, • What is included in pericarditis treatment? -✓✓ Decrease or stop heparin, give more
frequent dialysis
• What causes a pyrogen reaction? -✓✓ Endotoxins in the water
• What is the most common transmission route for HAI's? -✓✓ Contact transmission
• 17: 200-250
16: 250-350
15: 350-450
14: >450 -✓✓ Needle gauge and suggested BFR
• What do you do if a patient wants to get off early? -✓✓ educate and document, still
draw lab on habitual patients, MUST NOTIFY NURSE
• Lab draw mistakes that would falsely increase Kt/V -✓✓ not waiting the full 15 seconds
to draw the BUN
• 4 reasons we document in the medical record -✓✓ 1. proof that care was rendered
2. provides data continuity and planning of patient care
3. permanent legal record
4. communication tool
• Pre-treatment patient data collection/assessment -✓✓ Data collection: before initiation
Assessment: 30 minutes into treatment
• Post treatment data collection/assessments -✓✓ after treatment
-NOT DURING RINSEBACK
• What are the six items included in charting administered medications? -✓✓ REASON
FOR ADMINISTERING
• What are the 5 W's to be used when completing an AOR? -✓✓ who should report an
AOR
what type of incident
when should it be reported
where should they be reported
why
• What are the four consequences of sodium loading during dialysis? -✓✓ Thirsty
Increase Fluid Intake
Increased intradialytic weight gain
Increased ultrafiltration rate
