Dialysis Technician Professionalism
Professional Behaviors
- Keep learning
- Take pride in your work
- Learn and follow your clinic’s policies and procedures
- Be prepared: Have all equipment/supplies ready when patient arrives.
- Be organized.
- Wash your hands and put on clean gloves before touching a patient.
- Talk to your patients in a professional way.
- Use patient’s titles (Mrs Smith)
- Maintain your patient’s dignity: Provide them privacy.
- Protect everyone’s privacy and confidential information
- Remember your manners: say please and thank you
- Don’t stand around talking to other staff and making noise
- Be quiet
- Avoid distractions: focus on your work.
Never
- Give patients your phone number
- Share personal information
- Date or touch a patient in a sexual way
- Go to their homes
- Give a patient a ride
- Send texts or emails
- Give them advise unrelated to dialysis
- Loan or borrow money
- Send greeting cards, give gifts, or buy anything from patients
- Sell patients anything.
