Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA)
APNA Endorsement

8 CPD Hours

To meet the NSQHS Accreditation Standard 3 (Infection Control-AS/NZS 4187); Standard 1-Training staff & Auditing and ISO90001: Staff Training

CSSD-Technician–Sterlisation – Skills-Assessment

Aivt’s assessors have a of minimum 10 years working experience in a large variety of Public and Private Clinics. Furthermore all assessors always have held a high standard in their skills and abilities, ensuring they update their knowledge regularly.

Aivt is providing:

CSSD Technician Skills Assessment based on your clinic / facility’s current policy and procedure requirements. In a normal situation it is conducted annually.
Hand Hygiene Training workshops are offered to all levels of clinical staff or any organisations who are looking to improve their infection control to meet accreditation compliance.

Who we assess:

Newly graduated CSSD student who want to be assessed in a real world environment
Nursing staff of all levels and categories who have been directly involved in CSSD processing
Returning to work CSSD Technician who want to refresh their skills
CSSD Technicians who are working in the public system or in a day surgery clinic wanting to meet the new NSW Health standards, namely the AS/NZS 4187 requirement; the CSSD Technician skills are to be assessed by 3rd party groups annually
Dental Assistance and Dental Hygienist

For Booking or Further Information

Are you interested in this course? For more information about the course or how to apply,

1 800 118 001

Email: info@aivt.edu.au
By Post: PO Box 587, Penrith, NSW 2751

Assessment Locations

The assessment can be conducting at your facility, or
At our Accredited Clinic locating in Emu Plains, NSW 2750

Note: If assessment is conducted in your facility, you must make sure there are real cases for the assessor to accurately evaluate your performance.

Pre-Assessment Requirement

The CSSD Technician has to provide the following information to assessor one week before the assessment is conducted:

Describe to us the sterilisation equipment name, model and year made that you are using.
Scan copies of the currency of validation and calibration reports of your sterilisation equipment
List of instruments regularly reused.
Type of surgery services
Sterilisation Policy and Procedure

Minimum Participants

For Individual: Minimum One participant
For Group:
- If assessment is in our Clinic, the minimum participants required is 2 and maximum is 4
- If assessment is done in your facility, the minimum participants required is 4 in a day starting at 8:00 am

Assessment Topics

CSSD Packing, Wrapping & Labelling
Aseptic Technique Competence Assessment for Theatre Scrub Nurse
Cleaning of Reusable Medical Equipment Competency Assessment
Decontamination of Instruments and Equipment
Pre-vacuum Steam Sterliser
Indwelling Device Competency
Aseptic Technique Competence Assessment for Theatre Circulating Nurse
Aseptic Technique Competency Simple Dressing

Assessment Outcome

Refresh your skills
To meet the NSQHS accreditation requirements on Standard 3 for infection control and part Standard 1 on training staff and auditing. As well as ISO90001
To meet the internal audit requirement
Lift the patients' care standards
Gain confidence in providing surgeons and nursing staff with well sterilised instruments to treat patients
Reduce infection rates
reward APNA Endorsement -8 CPD Hours

Note:The result from this assessment will not guaranteed that all sterilisations or similar activities completed by your clinic or facility will be infection free. This is the responsibility of the clinic staff alone.