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When dialyzing a patient with acute kidney injury, one task of the patient care teammates is to monitor blood pressure and weight closely. Why is it important? - Answer- hypovolemia and hypotensive episodes can cause renal ischemia and can further damage the kidneys CKD can have its orgin pre-re...

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  • January 27, 2023
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Final Exam DaVita (RN)
When dialyzing a patient with acute kidney injury, one task of the patient care teammates is to monitor blood pressure and weight closely. Why is it important? - Answer- hypovolemia and hypotensive episodes can cause renal ischemia and can further damage the kidneys
CKD can have its orgin pre-renal , intra-renalm or post renal. Which of the following conditions is an intra-renal cause of CKD - Answer- HTN
Knowing what caused your patient's CKD - Answer- is important because the underlying
disease could cause health complications that can impact the dialysis treatment
When a PCT documents the extent of a patient's edema, for example as +3 - Answer- the PCT is preforming an assessment which is not allowed legally
When a patient has an irregular heartbeat, - Answer- the automatic BP reading may not be accurate
Which of the following is a data collection - Answer- HR 72
at what time should the post treatment data collection be completed - Answer- after the treatment has been completed
the A in smart communication stands for - Answer- actual- just report the facts
which of the following events is defined as a near miss - Answer- the wrong dialyzer was set up and primed for a patient, but it was caught before dialysis was initiated and the dialyzer was replaced
using the __________ approach is one way to fill out an REM - Answer- SBAR
What is your main priority when returning a patient's blood with the hand crank during a power outage? - Answer- you must be vigilant in watching for air in the blood lines
what problem will cause an increase in the patient's VP - Answer- a clot in the venous drip chamber
Which blood test must be performed at regular intervals on patients susceptible to HPB - Answer- HBsAg
who is accountable for appropriate patient and teammate scheduling in the acute setting
- Answer- you are dialyzing a patient and the only available HPB surveillance test is a HBsAb of 8.
What are the machine disinfection requirements after dialyzing this patient? - Answer- the machine must be heat disinfected at the end of each day
What is the most common factor contributing to bacteremia in dialysis patients? - Answer- use of catheters for HD
which infectious disease requires frequent hand washing instead of using alcohol based
hand gels - Answer- active clostridioides difficile infection
What precautions must be used when handling lab specimens? - Answer- universal precautions
waiting only five seconds between lowering the blood pump speed and drawing the post
treatment blood sample could - Answer- cause the post treatment BUN reading to be falsely low (wait 15 seconds)
which may cause a decrease in the hemoglobin of a patient with ESRD - Answer- infection/inflammation
fluid overload and HTN lead to LVH, this means - Answer- hypotensive episodes are more likely to occur during the dialysis treatment
your role in CKD-MBD management includes - Answer- reminding the patient who is eating a snack during dialysis to take his phosphate binder
your role in anemia management includes - Answer- rinsing back as much of the patient's blood as you can at the termination of each treatment
the licensed nurse has delegated a specific task to a PCT, but the PCT gets called away before performing this task. Can the PCT asek another PCT to take over? - Answer- no, a task delegated by the licensed nurse to a non-licenced teammate cannot be re-delegated by this teammate
the licensed nurse delegated a task to the PCT, Nicole, but Nicole has not performed this task during the last 2.5 months. What is Nicole's responsibility in the delegation communication process? - Answer- Nicole is to inform the nurse that she performed the task only infrequently
what is the nurse's responsibility in the delegation supervision process? - Answer- to determine the level of supervision needed and to monitor the NAP's performance of the task accordingly
the transport mechanism when particles move from an area of higher solute concentration to an area of lower solute concentration is called - Answer- diffusion

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