NANT Presents: DialysisTechConneXion22

NANT is pleased to present the only educational program designed BY technicians FOR technicians.

March 22 – 25, 2022 Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas

DTX22 Attendees, download your contact hour certificates here:

• Were you with us in Las Vegas?  Click Here for In-person Attendance Certificates.
• Did you attend Online/On-demand?  Click Here for Online Attendance Certificates. 

Click here to check out DTX Contact Hour modules available for purchase.

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE DTX22 PROGRAM BOOKLET

DTX22 Program Overview

Pre-Conference Workshops

DTX22 Pre-Conference Workshops are only available in person in Las Vegas – they have been designed to be higher interactive. It just costs $125 for one of four focused 6-hour programs:

Preventing Machine Failures – Efficiency for your Ounce of Prevention

• Preventive Maintenance
• Data Driven Maintenance
• Performance Indicators and Central Tendencies.
• Operator Concerns: 
• Roundtable Discussion

Latest in Water Treatment
(includes hands-on sessions)

• Impact of Water in Dialysis
• Be Water Prepared BEFORE a Disaster
• Industry perspective: emerging products/technologies
• Hands-on labs (not related to specific company product)
  • Common Values
  • General Water Testing for HO levels
• Roundtable Discussion

Home Dialysis
There are a lot of opportunities as we try to meet the goal of 20% of dialysis patients receiving their dialysis at home by 2025

• Why Home Dialysis is Growing
• Identifying Dialysis Patients for Home Dialysis
• Transitioning patient from hospital / dialysis to home
• Technical Home Assessment
• How the Technology Works
• Career opportunities
• Survey Requirements (including infection control)

Ready. Set. Survey.
If your unit is scheduled for its survey this year, this is the workshop you want to take!

• Most Frequently Cited Deficiences, ICHD, Home Therapy
• Water and Dialysate Standards – AAMI /ISO
• Case Studies
• Survey Triggers in the Dialysis Clinic
• Documentation: If it wasn’t documented, it wasn’t done. If it WAS documented, it lives forever

Concurrent Sessions

Wednesday and Thursday afternoons you can do a deep dive into specific clinical, biomedical, or professional development concurrent session tracks. While you can only attend one session at a time live in Las Vegas, you will have on-demand access to each of the concurrent sessions until April 30.

General Sessions

Ready to grow your dialysis career? DTX22 is where you can get solid help to climb your career ladder in dialysis.

Wednesday

We start on Wednesday by looking at Improving your workplace culture with Renee Thompson, DNP, RN, CSP, CEO & Founder, Healthy Workforce Institute^®. Renee will continue with a deep dive later in the day during our Professional Development session track to talk about how YOU can improve YOUR workplace culture.

Next, Adrian Amedia, Executive Vice President, Independent Dialysis Group, is a member of the Renal Healthcare Association board of directors - he will be discussing 20% by 2025 - What doe this mean to YOU?

We are looking at the Expectations for the future of technicians in dialysis with our Chief Nursing Officer panel, including Kathleen Belmonte, Fresenius Medical Care, Tracey Givens, Satellite Healthcare, and Tina Livaudais, DaVita’s new CNO.

Did you ever talk to someone, only to see your words go in one ear and out the other? Our session on How to Effectively Document by Karen Gaietto, PhD, RN, CNN, Clinical Content Senior Manager,  DaVita will help you make sure you not only hear the important things in your unit but that you know how to accurately document them for future reference.

Thursday

Our Thursday morning general sessions begin with Mandy Tilton, Chief Nursing Officer, Bayada Home Health Care, on Having Difficult Conversations. Mandy is our speaker for her deep dive session in Professional Development on How to Make YOUR Voice Heard.

Next, we have Inventory Control – The Key to the Financial Health of Your Facility presented by Tracy Reynolds, VP Operations, CDI Health. This represents a fascinating career path for which dialysis technicians are well suited. Later Thursday afternoon we have Bruce Fife, RPC on Inventory Control – How to Nourish YOUR Financial Success.

Our Thursday general sessions conclude with our Chief Technical Officer panel on What does the future hold? Hear what Ted Kazparek, Senior Director to Technical Operations, DaVita; Mark Gray, Vice President of Technical Services; and Heather Paradis, National Director of Biomedical Services, CDI Health see coming to your clinics soon.

Friday

Our concluding session begins with the very popular Dialysis Patient / Family Point of View. Each year, we learn new insights from articulate dialysis patients and their involved family caregivers.

This year we welcome Shelley Renn, Director of Meetings,  American Society of Human Genetics, who had acute renal failure.  We also welcome back Sam and Lacye Trevino, who traded the responsibilities of caregiver and receiver when Lacye needed acute dialysis as a result of dealing with GBS.

Felicia Speed, VP of Social Work for Fresenius, will talk about Appropriate Patient Boundaries. We end the conference with a lot of Resources you can use after DTX22 – Will Macias, NANT President; Clarica Douglas Ajayi, Immediate Past President; and Lisa Hauf, Director of Technical Services, DaVita will make sure you won’t leave DTX22 empty-handed.

Registration Options

With the support of its sponsors and exhibitors, NANT has been able to lower the cost of attendance by 30% compared to DTX20.

• All Access Pass (only available to those attending in person in Las Vegas) includes choice of one pre-conference workshop, all DTX22 programs, Dialysis Solutions Center, and social activities. This costs just $395 – for up to more than 42 contact hours
• DTX22 Conference registration is the same whether you are with us in Las Vegas or watching virtually. The cost is just $280 – for up to 35 contact hours
  • In Person (in Las Vegas) includes all DTX22 programs, Dialysis Solutions Center, and social activities
  • Virtual includes DTX22 programs, virtual Dialysis Solutions Center, and virtual social activities in our networking lounge
• DTX22 Pre-Conference Workshops are only available in person in Las Vegas – they have been designed to be higher interactive. It just costs $125 for one of four focused 6-hour programs:
  • Preventing Machine Failures – Efficiency for your Ounce of Prevention
  • Latest in Water Treatment (includes hands-on sessions)
  • Home Dialysis There are a lot of opportunities as we try to meet the goal of 20% of dialysis patients receiving their dialysis at home by 2025
  • Ready. Set. Survey. If your unit is schedule for its survey this year, this is the workshop you want to take!

Dialysis Solutions Center

The DTX22 Dialysis Solutions Center is where you will find manufacturers of key dialysis technician equipment, from water treatment, dialysis machines, vascular access, patient chairs, test strips, supplies, and more. It is also where you can find the talent attraction staff from major dialysis providers and the two dialysis technician certification boards. This year, companies will be in person in their booth in Las Vegas AND online to meet with both in person and virtual participants.

Networking Opportunities

Whether you can come to Las Vegas of attend DTX22 virtually, the heart of DTX22 is networking. We have several ways you can network with your peers, colleagues, and friends:

• Virtual Networking Lounge – open to both virtual and in person attendees. You can choose the topic for your table and visit with technicians throughout the United States, whether you (or they) are in Las Vegas

Available in person in Las Vegas:

• Dialysis Solutions Center Opening Reception – this is for in person participants – see your friends you haven’t seen in two years, find out what is new in dialysis technology products and find friends to have dinner with Wednesday night
• Thursday Networking Lunch in Dialysis Solutions Center – here’s your opportunity to visit with speakers, exhibitors and colleagues to discuss what you’ve learned and to share experiences
• Friday Networking Breakfast – your last chance to interact with your old and new friends, ensure that you have their phone number and email, and talk through what you learned that you can take back to your unit on Monday.

Here's how to convince your supervisor to let you attend DTX22

Download this letter to give to your supervisor - all you need to do is to sign it!

Exhibitors

DTX22 is going to be the first face-to-face gathering of dialysis technology practitioners in what seems forever!  NANT is providing our exhibitors both a live booth AND a virtual booth for the same price.  While we anticipate that technicians and technologists will look forward to getting together again, we learned last year that we can reach so many more technicians by including a virtual component - and we want to make it easy for your company to reach them, too!

Download our Exhibitor Prospectus (PDF) for DTX22.  Make your reservation online for your booth or you can complete the form on page 8 and mail it with your check.

UnWrapIt Fact Sheet - exhibitors confirmed prior to 31 December

UnWrapIt Fact Sheet - exhibitors confirmed since 1 January

DTX22 Promotion Sheet to include in mailings to dialysis units

Speakers

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