DaVita – PD Exam Review, 2026 – Study guide and practice material
What does DQI stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ DaVita Quality Index
What is the purpose of DQI? - correct answer ✔✔ It is a score/report *Create a focus on patient
outcomes that will affect patient health*
How do current outcomes affect our patients? example: peritonitis trends going up,
implementing monthly infection quiz to decrease
What does CMT stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Clinical Management Tool
What is the purpose of CMT? - correct answer ✔✔ Creates a patient flowsheet that highlights
labs, treatments, etc. Used in core team meetings to identify focus/unstable patients.
How often do core team meetings occur and what tool do we use? - correct answer ✔✔ Weekly
& clinical management tool (CMT)
Quick score - correct answer ✔✔ reimbursement
Bundled medications - correct answer ✔✔ Medicaid, some private insurance companies will
pay.
Covers following:
- Access mngmt: *heparin*
- Access pain: *lidocaine/prilocaine EMLA*
- Anemia: *Epogen*
- Antibiotics PO: *Cephalexin, Cefdinir, Sulfamethaxozole/Trimethoprim, Ciprofloxacin*
, - Antibiotics topical: *gentamicin, mupriocin, bactroban, anasept*
- Fluid mngmt: *Furosemide, Bumetanide, Torsemide (any duiretic w/IDE), ethacrynic acid*
MBD: *Cincalcet, Calcitriol, Hectorol, Zemplar*
Welldyne - correct answer ✔✔ dispensing pharmacy
Calcimimetics that are bundled are ordered through what? - correct answer ✔✔ clinical insight
T/F: Giving patients medication from facility stock to administer at home is a violation of the
nurse's scope of practice. - correct answer ✔✔ True
What electrolyte is the "driver" - correct answer ✔✔ PO4
In relation to MBD labs, kidney disease causes... - correct answer ✔✔ *PO4 increases* which
causes PTH to increase; causing Calcitriol to increase. *Ca will decrease* in bones/teeth/blood
and "Free" Ca will increase.
(side note: Serum Ca is protein + free = "total "& Ionized Ca = "free" )
What does QAPI stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ - Quality Assessment & Performance
Improvement
What does QAPI implement? - correct answer ✔✔ - facility health records (data from hard
chart, POA's, etc...)
- CMS regulated and required
- *Goal is to provide safe care through improvement of prev. outcomes*
Target hgb of Epogen is... - correct answer ✔✔ less than or equal to 11
What does DQI stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ DaVita Quality Index
What is the purpose of DQI? - correct answer ✔✔ It is a score/report *Create a focus on patient
outcomes that will affect patient health*
How do current outcomes affect our patients? example: peritonitis trends going up,
implementing monthly infection quiz to decrease
What does CMT stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ Clinical Management Tool
What is the purpose of CMT? - correct answer ✔✔ Creates a patient flowsheet that highlights
labs, treatments, etc. Used in core team meetings to identify focus/unstable patients.
How often do core team meetings occur and what tool do we use? - correct answer ✔✔ Weekly
& clinical management tool (CMT)
Quick score - correct answer ✔✔ reimbursement
Bundled medications - correct answer ✔✔ Medicaid, some private insurance companies will
pay.
Covers following:
- Access mngmt: *heparin*
- Access pain: *lidocaine/prilocaine EMLA*
- Anemia: *Epogen*
- Antibiotics PO: *Cephalexin, Cefdinir, Sulfamethaxozole/Trimethoprim, Ciprofloxacin*
, - Antibiotics topical: *gentamicin, mupriocin, bactroban, anasept*
- Fluid mngmt: *Furosemide, Bumetanide, Torsemide (any duiretic w/IDE), ethacrynic acid*
MBD: *Cincalcet, Calcitriol, Hectorol, Zemplar*
Welldyne - correct answer ✔✔ dispensing pharmacy
Calcimimetics that are bundled are ordered through what? - correct answer ✔✔ clinical insight
T/F: Giving patients medication from facility stock to administer at home is a violation of the
nurse's scope of practice. - correct answer ✔✔ True
What electrolyte is the "driver" - correct answer ✔✔ PO4
In relation to MBD labs, kidney disease causes... - correct answer ✔✔ *PO4 increases* which
causes PTH to increase; causing Calcitriol to increase. *Ca will decrease* in bones/teeth/blood
and "Free" Ca will increase.
(side note: Serum Ca is protein + free = "total "& Ionized Ca = "free" )
What does QAPI stand for? - correct answer ✔✔ - Quality Assessment & Performance
Improvement
What does QAPI implement? - correct answer ✔✔ - facility health records (data from hard
chart, POA's, etc...)
- CMS regulated and required
- *Goal is to provide safe care through improvement of prev. outcomes*
Target hgb of Epogen is... - correct answer ✔✔ less than or equal to 11
