Details
DTX40 (2023) Recorded Clinical Sessions
Up to 6.9 Contact Hours
Year: 2023
Note: Your governing body (BONENT and/or NNCC for example) will only accept credit for a session once. Additional viewings will not be valid toward your re-certification.
You must watch the videos and complete the questionnaires to earn your contact hours. You are purchasing access to the content. Contact Hours will only be awarded once you have completed the educational activities.
Vascular Access
Dr. Neghae Mawla
What Biomedical Technologists Want Clinical Technicians to Know about Care of the Machine
The proper care of a machine is EVERY technician’s responsibility – whether they are biomedical or clinical. This session will address what solutions the biomedical technologist (who often is NOT in the clinic when a machine malfunctions) would like the clinical technician to be able to use to help get the machine in proper functioning mode to ensure the best possible patient experience.
Effective Documentation
Tia Sabin, DaVita
Documentation can be seen as a real pain – but proper documentation can improve the patients outcome, provide important information for troubleshooting (or the next technician working with the patient), and in extreme cases – can save both you personally and your clinic from legal repercussions. This session, taught by a formed dialysis technician now working in Risk Management, will provide simple, but effective, ways you can improve your documentation skills.
How Technicians Can Better Educate Their Patients about Transplant
Kelly Mayo, MS, Chief Administration Officer and Vice President of Administration, Health Services Advisory Group, Inc. (HSAG)
The ESRD Treatment Choices Learning Collaborative wants to work with dialysis technicians to help them better inform and educate patients on their choice for transplant. This session will provide specific tools and techniques to help their patients best understand the options for transplant and how it can affect their quality of life.
Sarah Parker, Virginia Tech Carilion Strategic Partnership
Infection prevention is one of the most challenging issues in outpatient dialysis. Our team of human factors engineers with collaborators from ASN have been working to help understand how the design of work in outpatient dialysis might be impacting engagement in infection prevention. Sarah’s work has focused on understanding human performance in complex healthcare settings, and she and the team are now applying the science of human factors to outpatient dialysis to ultimately improve safety for patients and staff.
Building Relationships between In-Center and Home Delivery
CKD patients can change their dialysis modality based on a number of factors. Building strong relationships between the in-center and home delivery providers can help improve the quality of care for the patient – no matter where they receive it.
Survey Prep from a Technician Point of View
Gail Dewald
As a Clinical or Biomedical Technician, you are a pivotal player in a successful regulatory survey. As a surveyor for National Dialysis Accreditation Commission, Gail will present her experience with the safety pitfalls found at dialysis facilities. Go back to your facility with "new eyes" and information to improve your practice.
