Category: faq

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Practical observation of aseptic techniques (scrub techniques) ONLY for CRICE Including Sterile Field (Green Card)

1. The practical course (including Sterile Field) was specifically designed for people who routinely enter the sterile field (option 1). However, we have provided options 2 and 3 below for people who do not routinely enter the sterile field but may do so in future.
2. Observation of your aseptic techniques is NOT intended to be a training session but a competency assessment. You must be familiar with the techniques PRIOR to the observations. Please view the videos in the e-learning programme and practice your aseptic techniques with colleagues, friends and family before attempting the practical observations. Hospital personnel have been quite willing to collaborate on this initiative but are NOT required to do this as part of their job and do so on a voluntary basis.
3. If a hospital’s aseptic procedure differs to the checklist, please amend on the checklist itself. We will review amendments and query if necessary.
4. You must be observed on the closed-gloving technique even though you may not routinely perform this technique. You may therefore perform this in dummy sessions.
   • Perform this practical in the presence of a colleague from your company (NOT done at hospitals). Your colleague must have a clinical or medical qualification and must have experience with donning and doffing of PPE. Colleagues who are nurses, doctors, first aiders, OHS safety officers, lab techs etc typically qualify on both criteria. 

1. Two different observers (on two separate occasions) who are currently registered with SANC/HPCSA and who have either a Theatre Qualification or Theatre Experience to observe your aseptic techniques and complete the Observation Checklist
2. Practical observations can be completed at ANY hospital. 

Completion of Electronic Observation Checklist  

Practical aseptic technique is only applicable to Including Sterile field (Green) course. Observers will complete the electronic observation checklist which appears under the steps on CRICE CAMS mobile application 

You have three options to complete the practical component. 

Very Important: Irrespective of the option chosen below please take note of the following:   

• Two observations are required on to different occasions (second can occur immediately after the first)  
• Two different observers must be selected for each observation.  
• Observers must have theatre experience and must be either a registered nurse with a valid SANC number or a registered medical doctor with a valid HPCSA Registration Number.  
• SANC Numbers start with the number 1 and are 8 digits long.  

• HPCSA Registration Numbers start with letters MP and have 7 digits  
• They will complete the Observation Checklist Practical observations.  

Option 1 

During your next routine visit (s) into theatre at ANY HOSPITAL where you are required to scrub, request any 2 observers  who meet the above criteria to observe your aseptic techniques and complete the Observation Checklist. 

Option 2 

You and/or your company may arrange to have 2 different observers who meet above to observer your aseptic techniques in dummy runs in-house. This option is especially viable if you have experienced scrub sisters in your team who are currently registered with SANC and for reps who do not have sufficient experience with scrubbing, gowning and gloving as it can be a combined training and assessment session. 

Option 3 

Netcare has agreed to provide the third option which includes a training component at Netcare campuses at a nominal fee. Your company may enrol a team of 10 or more people into the Netcare 1 day programme at any of the Netcare campuses nationwide. Click here for more info on cost, campus locations and course.

This is a viable option for reps who are required to complete the practical but have not had sufficient experience with scrubbing, gowning and gloving as it is a combined training and assessment session.

No, the CRICE General (White card) does not require Declarations and hence does not require Hep B vaccination. Green and Blue card access

The above situations will be handled on a case-by-case basis as follows:

• Firstly, it is the company’s responsibility to assess the risk that such refusal may pose to the employee, other employees and patients and to determine how the company will mitigate such risk. This requires review of the CR activities and evaluation of exposure to possibility of Hep B transmission to and from
• Thereafter, the company should provide a synopsis, on company letterhead, of the above risk evaluation and mitigation strategy to MTS who will centrally coordinate the discussion with Netcare and/or other relevant parties.
• For pregnant/breastfeeding CR please include the dates where CR will require access without the Hep B vaccination.

As of 1 Nov 2016, all forms are completed using electronic signatures. 

The forms will appear under Step 4 in your CRICE CAMS mobile application. The forms will be completed  on your mobile device electronically. 

Once you have accessed Step 4, you will do the following: 

• Click on the ‘view’ button 
• Complete all fields. You may partially complete, save and return to complete. 
• Click on the SUMBIT button and a green (tick) will appear if successfully submitted.

The consent for the presence of a CR during the procedure is obtained by the HCP from the patient either as an inclusion in the routine consent form or in a separate consent form but the obligation to obtain the consent rests with the HCP. Netcare has informed HCPs of this requirement. 

However, from the company perspective, the CR needs to confirm with the HCP (verbally or in writing according to company policy) that the patient has given consent hence the clause in the Confidentiality Undertaking. Once the Confidentiality Undertaking is signed the CR, in effect, takes on the obligation to ensure that he has patient consent for every case even though he himself is not obtaining this consent.