DaVita Annual Competency Practice Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Albumin is an important test that tells about the patient ____ status - Correct Answers ✅Nutritional During a hemodialysis treatment the technician responds to a low venous pressure alarm. The most likely cause for this
alarm is: - Correct Answers ✅Disconnection of the
bloodline
All of the following are phosphate binders EXCEPT: - Correct
Answers ✅Vitamin B12
A semipermeable membrane is a porous barrier that: -
Correct Answers ✅Allows for only certain sized particles to cross Abnormal levels of this electrolyte can cause cardiac arrhythmias and even death. - Correct Answers ✅Potassium Before a hemodialysis treatment , the technician removes the cap from the fistula needle and accidentally touches the chair with the tip of the needle. Which of these actions should the technician take first? - Correct Answers ✅discard the needle 1 / 3
DaVita Annual Competency Practice Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) A 58- year old patient who is blind comes to treatment accompanied by his wife. Which of these approaches should the dialysis technician use when interacting with the patient?
- Correct Answers ✅Describe the activities in the
immediate environment A patient complains of pain at the venous needle site. The dialysis technician observes there is swelling distal to the venous needle site and that the venous pressure is rising. The dialysis technician should suspect.. - Correct Answers ✅an infiltration A rapid pulse of 104 beats/minute would indicate that the
patient has: - Correct Answers ✅tachycardia(fast heart
rate) A rise in transmembrane pressure in a low flux dialyzer
during hemodialysis is an indicative of: - Correct Answers
✅Clotting of the extracorporeal circuit During pre dialysis data collection, it would be best for the technician to ask the patient which of these questions? - Correct Answers ✅How have you been since your last tx Dialysate that is too hot will cause - Correct Answers ✅hemolysis 2 / 3
DaVita Annual Competency Practice Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) During hemodialysis, the air detector on Ms. Foster's machine alarms and foam is visible in the venous drip chamber. The
immediate action of the dialysis technician should be to: -
Correct Answers ✅Clamp venous line A female dialysis technician has been caring for a male patient for several months. The patient tells the dialysis technician that he is lonely and depressed. He asked the dialysis technician to go out to dinner with him. In addition to politely declining the patient's invitation, which of these actions, if any, should the dialysis technician take? - Correct Answers ✅Refer to a social worker A teammate asks you to document the normal saline he just
gave to Mr. Smith. You would: - Correct Answers ✅Never
document someone elses.
Asepsis is defined as: - Correct Answers ✅the absence of
disease producing organism AAMI standard for conventional dialysate requires the total microbial count be less than - Correct Answers ✅100 cfu/ml
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