DAVITA PCT Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Davita pct final exam 2024/2025 questions and answers already passed Water and dialysate cultures are drawn every month in the dialysis unit to monitor bacteria and endotoxins what problems will cause a more positive (less negative) pre-pump arterial pressure. blockage of arterial blood flow from the vascular access. what is the most likely reason for a blood leak detector alarm during recirculation -air bubbles in the dialysate, dirty sensor -check dialysate connections, bleach ma...

Water and dialysate cultures are drawn every month in the dialysis unit to monitor - bacteria and endotoxins what problems will cause a more positive (less negative) pre-pump arterial pressure. - blockage of arterial blood flow from the vascular access. what is the most likely reason for a blood leak detector alarm during recirculation - -air bubbles in the dialysate, dirty sensor -check dialysate connections, bleach machine

DAVITA PCT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS )REAL EXAM

17 gauge blood flow and pre-pump AP - ANSWER-Blood flow: 200-250 ml/min Pre-pump AP: no more negative than - 150 mmHg 16 gauge blood flow and pre-pump AP - ANSWER-Blood flow: 250-350 ml/min Pre-pump AP: no more negative than - 200 mmHg 15 gauge needle blood flow and pre-pump AP - ANSWER-Blood flow: 350-450 ml/min Pre-pump AP: no more negative than - 220 mmHg 14 gauge needle blood flow and pre-pump AP - ANSWER-Blood flow: greater than 450 ml/min Pre-pump AP: no more negative than - 2...

You are assisting a patient to step onto the scale by holding the patient's hand. Such a casual contact: A) Requires wearing gloves and hand hygiene afterwards B) Requires neither gloves nor hand hygiene since there is no contact with blood or body fluids C) Requires gloves only without performing hand hygiene when discarding the gloves D) Does not require wearing gloves but you must perform hand hygiene afterwards - ANSWER-D) Does not require wearing gloves but you must perform hand hygie...

15% - ANSWER-HD replaces approximately how much of normal kidney function? HTN - ANSWER-What is the direct result of intravascular fluid overload? LVH - ANSWER-Pts with this Cardiac disease are 10x more likely to experience hypotension Broth - ANSWER-Offering a pt this is an example of oral Na loading. Phosphorus - ANSWER-This electrolyte is often elevated in pts who experience severe itching Renin - ANSWER-The kidneys help regulate blood pressure by releasing this. Erythropoie...

1.Grief Is there an order to work through them 2.Can someone experience them more than once - ANSWER-1.No 2.Yes Ultrafiltration (UF) - ANSWER-Fluid pushed through the semipermeable membrane (SPM) membrane Convection - ANSWER-Solutes dragged across SPM along with fluid Diffusion - ANSWER-Particles moves from area of high concentration to low Osmosis - ANSWER-Fluid moves from area of low to high concentration AKI - ANSWER-acute kidney injury Explain the four transport mechan...

What is important when monitoring weight and BP for acute patients? - ANSWER-keep patients wet to avoid hypotensive episodes What do you need to consider in regards to acute patents vascular access? - ANSWER-Usually have a CVC - follow policy and procedure to prevent infections Why is it important to know what caused your patient's CKD? - ANSWER-to inquire about possible problems during data collection and assessments Kt/V: What is K? - ANSWER-clearance of urea What treatment fact...

AKI patients are at increased risk for which complication? - ANSWER-hypovolemia & hypotension Why is it important to know what caused your patient's CKD? - ANSWER-SO the nurse and PCT can inquire about possible problems during data collection and assessment What treatment factors decrease K? - ANSWER-Inadequate coagulation, deceased BFR, poor priming, not following P&P, patient not starving on treatment as presccribed What is the suggested BFR for 16g needle? - ANSWER-250-300 What a...

which of the following factors would influence the K of the kt/v formula ? - ANSWER-blood volume processed (BVP) It is important that patients stay for for their entire treatment time because adequate dialysis replaces - ANSWER-less than 15% of normal kidney function waiting only five seconds between lowering the blood pump speed and drawing the post treatment blood sample could - ANSWER-cause the kt/v reading to be falsely high what precautions must be used when handling and packaging ...

The "reasonable & prudent" standard of Care for Nephrology Nursing Key Concepts. - ANSWER-The Standard of Care is that care which a reasonable and prudent nephrology nurse would give under the same or similar circumstances. The Standard of Care includes actions a reasonable and prudent nephrology nurse would do, as well as actions the nurse would avoid doing. In general, the Standard of Care for nephrology nursing is keyed to this specialty and the skills and knowledge expected of a neph...

Number 1 & 2 cause of (CKD) chronic kidney diease - ANSWER-1- diabetes 2-hypertension In (AKI) acute kidney injury it is better to keep patients? - ANSWER-too wet, rather than too dry with fluid removal goals 3 sub-groups of ckd? - ANSWER-1-pre-renal-interferes w/ BF to the kidneys, causes-injuries/renal artery clot 2-intra-renal-damages nephron directly, causes-diabetes/hypertension/PKD 3-post-renal-any condition interfering w/ urine leaving the bladder, causes-kidney stones/enlarged p...