2006 Ohio Revised Code - 4723.72. Authorized activities of dialysis technicians.

§ 4723.72. Authorized activities of dialysis technicians.
 

(A)  A dialysis technician may engage in dialysis care by doing the following: 

(1) Performing and monitoring dialysis procedures, including initiating, monitoring, and discontinuing dialysis; 

(2) Drawing blood; 

(3) Administering any of the medications specified in division (C) of this section when the administration is essential to the dialysis process; 

(4) Responding to complications that arise during dialysis. 

(B)  A dialysis technician may provide the dialysis care specified in division (A) of this section only if the care has been delegated to the technician by a physician or registered nurse and the technician is under the supervision of a physician or registered nurse. Supervision requires that the dialysis technician be in the immediate presence of a physician or registered nurse, or, in the case of dialysis care provided in a patient's home, that the dialysis technician be supervised in accordance with the rules adopted under section 4723.79 of the Revised Code for supervision of dialysis technicians who provide dialysis care in a patient's home. Division (E)(5) of section 4723.73 of the Revised Code does not allow a dialysis technician who provides dialysis care in a patient's home to provide dialysis care that is not authorized under this section. 

(C)  A dialysis technician may administer medication only as ordered by a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code and in accordance with the standards established in rules adopted under section 4723.79 of the Revised Code. A dialysis technician may administer only the following medications: 

(1) Intradermal lidocaine or other single therapeutically equivalent local anesthetic for the purpose of initiating dialysis treatment; 

(2) Intravenous heparin or other single therapeutically equivalent anticoagulant for the purpose of initiating and maintaining dialysis treatment; 

(3) Intravenous normal saline; 

(4) Patient-specific dialysate, to which the person may add electrolytes but no other additives or medications; 

(5) Oxygen, when the administration of the oxygen has been delegated to the technician by a registered nurse. 
 

HISTORY: 148 v S 111 (Eff 6-27-2001); 149 v H 327. Eff 7-8-2002.