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It Only Takes Six Weeks To Complete your Training as a Dialysis Technician!

 

While it’s troubling that kidney failure is a growing national health problem, kidney disease continues to drive the growing demand for dialysis technicians. 

Dialysis treatments add years to the lives of people suffering from kidney disease. Most patients come in for four-hour treatments, three times each week ... so you must have good customer service skills.

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Below are the most commonly asked questions about our dialysis technician Course.  Please feel free to e-mail us with any questions you have.

What is a Dialysis Technician? 


 Under supervision, Dialysis Technicians operate machines and perform dialysis on patients with acute or chronic kidney failure.  dialysis removes waste products and fluids from a patients blood and vascular system. Dialysis technicians function under the direction of nurses and physicians.  This specialized training is appropriate for Medical Assistants, Licensed Practical Nurses, RN’s EMT’S, Patient Care Technicians, CNA’s, Phlebotomists, and anyone interested in a medical health career.

Should I have a special interest to be a Dialysis Technician?

If you have an interest in science and technology and also like working with people, then consider a career as a dialysis technician, will not only earn a competitive wage but also save lives.

Dialysis technicianss give patients important social and emotional support and also provide vital information on patient conditions to nurses, doctors, and other medical staff. Since techs have extensive daily contact with each dialysis patient, they are key to providing vital information on the patients' conditions to the nurse and doctor. It is hard to find a dialysis technician who does not agree that it is a very rewarding job.

Tell me a little about you Dialysis Technician Course.

Below is a few of the topics that the Dialysis Technician course will teach:

* Introduction to hemodialysis
* chemistry of body fluids
* water in the human body
* renal anatomy and physiology
* pathology of renal failure
* hemodialysis devices
* patient treatment procedures
* the accessment process
* infection control and standard precautions
* health factors in dialysis
* medication problems and dialysis
* nutrition management
* acute renal failure and dialysis
* chronic dialysis therapy issues and concerns
* peritoneal dialysis and home dialysis

* and much more

Where are Dialysis Technicians Employed?

Most Dialysis Technicians work in Dialysis facilities, hospitals, some nursing homes, assisted living facilities, long term care facilities, who have there own dialysis units for its residents. Many Dialysis Technicians choose to work for Agencies who place Dialysis Technicians in different long and short term assignments.  Many Dialysis Technicians enjoy the opportunity to work in different health care settings. 

 How much can I except to make as a Dialysis Technician, In New York City.

The medium salary of a dialysis technician, including benefits is $50,000 per year.   A dialysis technician can except to make over $55,000 with benefits after time.  Of course pay can vary from State to State.  The salary and benefits quoted are for dialysis technicians working in New York.  Salary for other States may be higher or lower. 

Why do I sometimes hear Dialysis Technicians being referred to with other titles?

The official title is Dialysis Technician  In some health setting dialysis technicians may also be know as dialysis workers, dialysis assistants, dialysis aides, dialysis health care workers, hemo dialysis technician, renal dialysis technicians, dialysis technologists  and dialysis support workers Dialysis  Care Aide,  Dialysis Caregiver.  

Is a Nurse Technician the same as a Dialysis Technician?

No,  A Nurse Techncian is Certified Nurses Assistant, also called a CNA, who graduated a nurse technician program to upgrade there skills and pay. Nurse technicians do the work of a CNA, with additional duties, which differs in each health care setting.  Most perform phlebotomy and EKG.  A Nurse Technician or a CNA is not qualified to work as a dialysis technicnan.

I want to by a LPN or RN is the Dialysis Technician  a good course to take?

We have many graduate students who have went on to be both LPN's and RN's.  Our Dialysis Technician course is a great opportunity to enter the health field in a short time, and at a low cost.  After working as a Dialysis Technician you will be around, many professionals who can help guide you.  Also, many students go on to other allied health careers, such as Nurse Technician, MRI Tech, to mention a few.

How many Americans are recieving dialysis?

As a dialysis technician you will be part of caring for approximately 217,000 Americans who receive ongoing dialysis. Since the late 1960s, the dialysis procedure has been used in place of kidneys lost to disease, birth defects, or injury. Dialysis can be used temporarily until the kidneys resume function or the patient receives a transplant.  Patients on dialysis can live for years if those options are not available.

Can a dialysis patient work a job?

 If a dialysis patient is otherwise healthy, they can work and live full and active lives. In fact, I recently met a dialysis patient who works as a Dialysis Technician, in a dialyisis center!  He works full-time as a dialysis tech in a NY dialysis center. His job requires him to walk  through-out the dialysis center. He moves dialysis machines, lifts boxes, and feels great. 

I am interested in knowing how dialysis works?

Dialysis acts as an artificial kidney. There are two types of treatment: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. About 90 percent of dialysis patients receive hemodialysis, in which the blood is circulated outside the body and cleaned inside a machine before returning to the patient. This is the type of treatment that you will be giving as a dialysis technician.

Is dialysis a cure to patients?

Dialysis is not a cure. If a person's kidneys are temporarily damaged, dialysis can give them a rest and a chance to recover. But for chronic, end-stage renal disease, a kidney transplant is the only long-term solution that frees a patient from dialysis.

Do all dialysis patients receive kidney transplants?

Some dialysis patients are not well enough for the rigors of a transplant operation and the drugs that follow, according to the American Association of Kidney Patients. In fact, 20 percent of dialysis patients are over 65. More than half suffer from other illnesses, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Some patients receive transplants only to have them rejected by their immune system later. Some patients refuse transplants.  As a dialysis technican you will discover that dialysis may be something of a social gathering and a way to be monitored and cared for by a group of Dialysis Technicians and other health-care providers who become friends.

Can out of State Students study in your school?

Yes, We have many out of State students who choice to study at the Manhattan Institute to prepare to be a dialysis technician.  We do not charge out of State students higher tuition. All students pay the same price for there education.  Although most of our students come from the tri-State area, and the five Boro's - New York, New York City, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, and Manhattan. Our midtown location makes it easy for students in the tri-State area - Long Island, Westchester, Upstate NY,  New Jersey,  Connecticut and Pensylvania.  We have had students from all over the United States study with us.  In fact, we have had several students from different foreign countries.  Our low tuition makes it a very good alternative.  Many students combine study with a vacation.  New York City is a great City to visit, and even a better one when you pursue an education at the Manhattan Institute.

What is The National Kidney Foundation and how does it help, should a dialysis technician be aware of it?

When you become a dialysis technician you should lean more about the National Kidney Foundation.  I have given a little overview which I feel is useful for the dialysis technician to be aware of.

More than 20 million Americans-one in nine adults-has chronic kidney disease, and most don't even know it. More than 20 million others are at increased risk. The National Kidney Foundation, a major voluntary health organization, seeks to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation. Through its 51 affiliates nationwide, the foundation conducts programs in research, professional education, patient and community services, public education and organ donation. The work of the National Kidney Foundation is funded by public donations.

My Aunt is on dialysis, she says that she does not enjoy going for treatment.  Is this common?  When I work as a dialysis technician will I encounter many patients in the dialysis center who feel the same?

Providing health care to any person who is not in good health, is the responsibility that the health care provider faces.  The dialysis technician is no different.  Most of working graduates love their job.  They find it very rewarding to help and care for patients.

I have posted segments from a recent story I read.  It tells about the hardship that a dialysis patient faces. 

Tens of thousands of people across the country, have their kidneys ruined by Type 2 diabetes, and are forced into the grim routine of dialysis care from a New York dialysis center.   New York is dominated by small dialysis providers.  Many of the smaller centers provide good care, experts say,  

In 1980, fewer than 50,000 people in the United States needed dialysis to do the work of their kidneys; today, there are more than 350,000, including roughly 24,000 in New York. In 1980, diabetes was the primary cause of kidney failure for fewer than 6,000 dialysis patients; today, the figure is about 150,000.  Survival for them is an ordeal, at best.

At a typical dialysis center, patients come in three times a week, typically for four hours at a time. They sit in rows of recliners, dozing, watching television -- anything to take their minds off the machines, needles and tubes that siphon blood from their bodies, clean it of impurities like urea, and pump it back in. It is surprisingly quiet; patients are so beset by side effects like fatigue, cramps or thirst, that mere conversation seems like an effort.

For all but a few, holding a job is out of the question. Most will never be healthy enough to qualify for a transplant that would free them of this burden, and there are far too few donated kidneys, anyway.   New drugs and dialysis techniques have improved their chances of survival since the 1980s, despite the fact that patients today are older, heavier and sicker. Even so, the average dialysis patient spends 15 days a year hospitalized, and the death rate is about one in five each year.

''I want to say it's a rough life, but it hardly is a life,'' said Denise Bembury, a dialysis patient who lives in Brooklyn. ''I wouldn't put this on anybody.''  Until earlier this year, she was a social worker and an avid cook. Now, she is on disability, and her companion of more than 30 years prepares meals. They have six children, and she wonders how the four youngest, all teenagers, will manage. ''I'm thirsty all the time, and tired,'' she said.

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