TEST 1 Dialysis Technician || with Errorless Solutions.
What factors can affect how well a patient may do on dialysis? correct answers age, active,
illness, how well they manage to travel, attitudes, support they have around them.
What is the main job of healthy kidneys? correct answers keep body in homeostasis
Which parts of a healthy kidney function can dialysis replace? correct answers only partial:
remove waste and water 10%
What is dialysate correct answers cleansing fluid (a precise mixture of treated water and
chemicals used in dialysis to form a contaminated gradient to increase waste from the body)
Your job with in center HD may routinely include the following tasks: correct answers set up
station, talk to pts, put in dialysis needles, enter machine settings, teach pts to place them.
Your job with in center KD may routinely include the following tasks: correct answers help
set up home, provide respite treatments, prepare the equipment, help home patients
In peritoneal dialysis, what is dwell time? correct answers a waiting period (how long
dialysate must stay in the patients abdomen before is is drained.
What tasks might your job with PD commonly include correct answers check pt into an
examination room, check vitals, draw blood, observe or reinforce PD tasks after the nurse has
done ty?, manage phone lines, file paperwork, enter data into medical records, manage supply
inventory, ensure new PD catheters.
What are the Medicare rules that apply to US Dialysis clinics? correct answers conditions for
coverage
What is the Medicare QIP correct answers Quality Incentive program's 80%
The two ways to do peritoneal dialysis treatments are: correct answers Manual exchange and
continuous cycling (cycler PD and Manual PD)
If the nephrologist prescribes it, what may helps reduce organ stunning? correct answers
Using slightly cool dialysate (1/2 c bela gentler treatments noctane Hemodialysis
Symptoms of metabolic acidosis may include correct answers Weak, tired, breathe rapidly,
have a racing heartbeat, headaches, and confusion.
What is the target serum albumin level for people on dialysis to reduce the risk of death?
correct answers 4.0g (below 10 is kidney failure
Studies of nocturnal hemodialysis have been found what? correct answers 25 to 72% better
survival with nighttime HD in center
What is true about medical management without dialysis for people with CKD? correct
answers CQU- continuous Quality Improvement: improving the management of anemia in
hemodialysis patients by implementing the continuous quality improvement program
, What is the purpose of calyx a healthy kidney? correct answers seaps drops of urine into the
renal pelvis: The first part of the renal pelvis contains the calyces. These are small cup-
shaped spaces that collect fluid before it moves into the bladder. This is also where extra fluid
and waste become urine
Hyponatremia can occur if dialysate is not mixed correctly, and can cause what? correct
answers intense thirst, confusion, seizures, and death (too much sodium)
As a technician, how can you help to prevent malnutrition the patients you take care of?
correct answers talk to the patient, convince them to take their binders and eat chicken
Filtrate made by the kidneys becomes urine in what way? correct answers At the very end of
the collecting duct. The filtrate flows from the proximal tubule and into the Loop of Henle.
The loop of Henle concentrates the filtrate, by removing more water from it, and passes it to
the distal tubule. From the distal tubule it travels to the collecting duct - now called urine.
What type of blood pump pressure is always positive? correct answers Post pump (venous)
pressure
How can hemodialysis treatments be prescribed to reduce the risk of organ stunning? correct
answers a gentler treatment: If you do in-center HD, ask your doctor about cooler dialysate.
Studies find that cool dialysate (the fluid that water and wastes flow into during dialysis)
protects you from stunning
A solute will dissolve more quickly in a solution that is what? correct answers acidic liquids,
warmer, stirred.
When a solution is saturated, what can be said about it? correct answers less acidic, more
bicarbonate, contains the maximum amount of solute that is capable of dissolving.
What are examples of a semipermeable membrane in the body? correct answers skin (pores),
helps with semi-permeability
Why does diffusion occur? correct answers because Browman's motion is still occurring until
equilibrium is achieved.
What must occur to stop the processes of diffusion or osmosis? correct answers equilibrium
What is precipitate in dialysis? correct answers needle like crystals: too much calcium and
phosphate that form Calciphylaxis which causes blood clots, painful skin ulcers and may
cause serious infections that can lead to death.
How does the pH of a solute affect how well it will dissolve? correct answers The more
acidic the faster it will dissolve, the more bicarbonate the slower it will dissolve.
Increasing the resistance inside a tube will have what effect on the flow? correct answers
slow it down if not stop it.
What factors can affect how well a patient may do on dialysis? correct answers age, active,
illness, how well they manage to travel, attitudes, support they have around them.
What is the main job of healthy kidneys? correct answers keep body in homeostasis
Which parts of a healthy kidney function can dialysis replace? correct answers only partial:
remove waste and water 10%
What is dialysate correct answers cleansing fluid (a precise mixture of treated water and
chemicals used in dialysis to form a contaminated gradient to increase waste from the body)
Your job with in center HD may routinely include the following tasks: correct answers set up
station, talk to pts, put in dialysis needles, enter machine settings, teach pts to place them.
Your job with in center KD may routinely include the following tasks: correct answers help
set up home, provide respite treatments, prepare the equipment, help home patients
In peritoneal dialysis, what is dwell time? correct answers a waiting period (how long
dialysate must stay in the patients abdomen before is is drained.
What tasks might your job with PD commonly include correct answers check pt into an
examination room, check vitals, draw blood, observe or reinforce PD tasks after the nurse has
done ty?, manage phone lines, file paperwork, enter data into medical records, manage supply
inventory, ensure new PD catheters.
What are the Medicare rules that apply to US Dialysis clinics? correct answers conditions for
coverage
What is the Medicare QIP correct answers Quality Incentive program's 80%
The two ways to do peritoneal dialysis treatments are: correct answers Manual exchange and
continuous cycling (cycler PD and Manual PD)
If the nephrologist prescribes it, what may helps reduce organ stunning? correct answers
Using slightly cool dialysate (1/2 c bela gentler treatments noctane Hemodialysis
Symptoms of metabolic acidosis may include correct answers Weak, tired, breathe rapidly,
have a racing heartbeat, headaches, and confusion.
What is the target serum albumin level for people on dialysis to reduce the risk of death?
correct answers 4.0g (below 10 is kidney failure
Studies of nocturnal hemodialysis have been found what? correct answers 25 to 72% better
survival with nighttime HD in center
What is true about medical management without dialysis for people with CKD? correct
answers CQU- continuous Quality Improvement: improving the management of anemia in
hemodialysis patients by implementing the continuous quality improvement program
, What is the purpose of calyx a healthy kidney? correct answers seaps drops of urine into the
renal pelvis: The first part of the renal pelvis contains the calyces. These are small cup-
shaped spaces that collect fluid before it moves into the bladder. This is also where extra fluid
and waste become urine
Hyponatremia can occur if dialysate is not mixed correctly, and can cause what? correct
answers intense thirst, confusion, seizures, and death (too much sodium)
As a technician, how can you help to prevent malnutrition the patients you take care of?
correct answers talk to the patient, convince them to take their binders and eat chicken
Filtrate made by the kidneys becomes urine in what way? correct answers At the very end of
the collecting duct. The filtrate flows from the proximal tubule and into the Loop of Henle.
The loop of Henle concentrates the filtrate, by removing more water from it, and passes it to
the distal tubule. From the distal tubule it travels to the collecting duct - now called urine.
What type of blood pump pressure is always positive? correct answers Post pump (venous)
pressure
How can hemodialysis treatments be prescribed to reduce the risk of organ stunning? correct
answers a gentler treatment: If you do in-center HD, ask your doctor about cooler dialysate.
Studies find that cool dialysate (the fluid that water and wastes flow into during dialysis)
protects you from stunning
A solute will dissolve more quickly in a solution that is what? correct answers acidic liquids,
warmer, stirred.
When a solution is saturated, what can be said about it? correct answers less acidic, more
bicarbonate, contains the maximum amount of solute that is capable of dissolving.
What are examples of a semipermeable membrane in the body? correct answers skin (pores),
helps with semi-permeability
Why does diffusion occur? correct answers because Browman's motion is still occurring until
equilibrium is achieved.
What must occur to stop the processes of diffusion or osmosis? correct answers equilibrium
What is precipitate in dialysis? correct answers needle like crystals: too much calcium and
phosphate that form Calciphylaxis which causes blood clots, painful skin ulcers and may
cause serious infections that can lead to death.
How does the pH of a solute affect how well it will dissolve? correct answers The more
acidic the faster it will dissolve, the more bicarbonate the slower it will dissolve.
Increasing the resistance inside a tube will have what effect on the flow? correct answers
slow it down if not stop it.
