Delegation to a Dialysis Technician

Nurse Delegation

A licensed nurse may delegate hemodialysis tasks to nursing assistants who have successfuly completed a board-approved dialysis technician training program.

• Review ARSD 20:48:04.02:05 to identify the tasks that a nurse may delegated to a trained dialysis technician.

• Nurses must follow the General Delegation Criteria and the Supervision Criteria when delegating tasks to a dialysis technician.

• Nurses and employers are encouraged to use the Delegation Decision Making Algorithm to guide whether a task may be delegated.

Dialysis Technician Qualifications

Qualifications to be a dialysis technician include having a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent, completed a board-approved dialysis technican training program, and holding national, board-approved, dialysis technician certification, or completed a board-approved training program within preceding 18 months.  

Board-Approved Certification Organizations

• The Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician (CCHT) exam offered by NNCC

• The Board of Nephrology Examiners certification exam offered by BONENT

• The Certfied Clinical Nephrology Technician exam offered by NNCO