Kia ora, my name is Sue French
and I'm a nurse with the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre.
I've been asked to do a live demonstration on how to do a rapid antigen test on yourself.
I am today going to be using the orient gene pack which comes with five tests
in each pack.
You may have seen something different, there are many different packs around the country
and it is important that you read the instructions that come with your kit.
In each kit it will contain
a swap, they can come in different lengths
don't be alarmed if you get a shorter one.
You will also get in the kit a vial with some solution in it
which is what your swab will go into.
In this particular kit on the back of the box
there is a hole that you can punch through and that allows you to stand your kit up
while you are doing the test.
There is a lid that needs to go onto this vial of solution
once you've taken the swab and put it into the solution.
Also in the pack will be a foil pack
that contains the cartridge with your test in it.
When you open it and drop that out
you'll see that the cartridge has two windows in it.
There's a small circular window here
which is what you are going to put your solution in to
and then there is a result window
and that may have a longer window which
has three lines or could have two.
So it's really important to read the instructions in the kit that you have.
This needs to go on a flat, clean surface
and it stays on a flat clean surface until you've read the result.
Each kit will contain instructions
and it's really important to read these
as each particular type of pack
might have some minor variations as to how to do the test.
I've also got a tissue with me
which I'll blow my nose with before I do the test
and I've already just done this so I won't do it again for the surpose of the demonstration.
But it is important to blow your nose, just to get those secretions in the front of your nose out
before you do the test.
I've cleaned my hands and I've got a clean surface
and I've got everything reayd infront of me.
The last thing I need is some way of timing the test process
so I've set my timer ready for this functions that I need to do
for this particular test.
So I've got my vial of fluid ready to go,
the lid and the kit
and I've read my instructions.
I'm opening the pack
when we are putting the swap into our nose it goes approximately two or three cm into your nose
if you're not quite sure how far that is
it's around about to the first knuckle joint on your little finger for most people
and it's worth while measuring it so that you know.
This swab needs to go in, I'm going to turn slightly so you can see the angle of approach.
It goes into your nostril at a flat angle like this
shouldn't feel any resistance, it just goes in
two to three centimetres
and you're going to take the swab and rotate it, five times
nice and slowly
to get cells and secretion from inside your nose.
You're going to take it out
and then you are going to do the other one exactly the same
If you are not quite sure about the two to three centimetres
it's roughly around there... it feels like a boney bit on your nose.
Five times
around and out.
I'm going to take my vial of solution
take the silver lid off
and I'm going to put this in here
I'm going to rotate it, this particular kit, six times is what the instructions tell me to do.
Then it asks me to put this down and set my timer for one minute to leave that in the solution.
For the purpose of the demonstration we have already done this
so we are not going to do that for one whole minute
but it is really important again, to read those instructions for what you are doing.
I'm going to squeeze the vial
and I'm going to take the swab out
extract it out through the solution
put it back in the kit
and put the lid on.
Some lids will click, others don't.
Giving it a flick to mix the solution
I'm going to turn it completely upside down
so the solution is down at the bottom of the dropper.
This kit requires me to use four drops
in the well at the bottom.
I'm going to keep that incase I need to repeat it, incase it's an invalid result.
Now going to set my timer to 15 minutes
and I'm going to wait.
So I've got four drops and I'm waiting 15 minutes
and what we see on the kit
is that the window in here starts to change colour
as the fluid starts to move across the membrane.
At 15 minutes, you are able to read your results.
Some kits require 10,
some tests take 20.
It's really important that you read it at the time that it's required.
It will tell you in the instructions not to read it after so much time
because the result becomes invalid.
I have done a test before
so here is one I prepared earlier.
It is really really important that this stays on the table
don't lift it because the fluid has to cross over the membrane
and it can't do that if you're holding it up right trying to read it
so it's really important to leave it on the table for the full time.
So this test kit... this particular test
tells me I've got one line in the C area- control
tells me I have not detected the virus.
If I had two lines in here
there would be a line across the T
that would tell me that it has detected the virus.
This is a positive result and one that we would need to record.
We record all results but this is the one that we are hoping we don't get.
So two lines.
Some test kits might have three lines, if there is a third line
it is telling you it is invalid.
In the instructions it will tell you what to look for if it's invalid
but mostly if you don't ever get anything across the C
it is telling you that this result is invalid.
Grab another test out and do the test again.
It might be something to do with this cartridge.