CCHT PRACTICE NNCC EXAM QUESTIONS

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CCHT PRACTICE NNCC EXAM QUESTIONS

Qs and Ans - Expert- Explanation - ing score -19 Questions and Answers

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Question 1: when the technician is teaching a patient to self cannulate using tandem hand technique the

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patient places the thumb and finger behind the technicians thumb and finger Question 2: when creating a button hole tract, how many consecutive cannulations are usually required before the tract is adequately formed?

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• to 10

Question 3: one half teaspoon of salt is equal to about how many milligrams of sodium?

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1,150mg Question 4: which members of the dialysis center team are responsible for carrying out the quality assessment and performance improvement program at a dialysis center?

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all staff

Question 5: patients with uremia develop foamy or bubbly urine because

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protien leaks into the urine Question 6: what percentage of the water that is filtered out of the body by the glomeruli is excreted as urine?

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1% Question 7: which of the following is an indication that a patient may be losing fat/ and or muscle mass even though he or she reaches the target weight after treatment?

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patient becomes short of breath if laying flat after treatment Question 8: which of the following lab tests is often done before and after dialysis to measure the effectiveness of dialysis in removing waste products from the body?

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blood urea nitrogen Question 9: a patient who experiences numbness, tremors, muscle spasms, and muscle pain might have low levels of

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calcium Question 10: which member of the dialysis team is responsible for setting up plan of care for a patient?

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nephrologist Question 11: patients receiving hemodialysis are at risk for amyloidosis. which of the following symptoms may indicate amyloidosis?

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joint pain

Question 12: normal saline has a sodium chloride concentration of

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0.9%

Question 13: the mass transfer coefficient of a dialyzer refers to

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how well solutes pass through the sialyzer membrane

Question 14: about what percentage of body water is in the intramuscular space?

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10% Question 15: if a dialysis center carries out dialyzer reprocessing and uses peracetic acid as the germicide, the contact time needed is

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11 hours Question 16: which of the following is a function of the end stage renal disease networks?

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help resolve patient staff conflicts

Question 17: infections in buttonhole tracts are almost always caused by

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improper scab removal

Question 18: diffusion is

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movement of solutes through a semi permeable membrane from and area of higher concentration to lower Question 19: which of the following is a genetic disease that can lead to kidney failure

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polysistic kidney disease