STEP 5:

Register patients for testing (including walk ins)

Patients who pre-register will have their information stored and their profile can be resurfaced for future use. Therefore, to save patient information for future purposes, pre-registration is recommended.

A staff member only needs to complete a few simple steps to register a patient on the Color platform:

• Patient details (e.g., name, date of birth)
• Necessary contact information (e.g., phone number)
• Health insurance (if available)
• Parent/guardian information (if applicable)

The Color platform both allows you to register walk-in patients and enables patients to self-register through a site-specific URL (See FAQ for more info).

NOTE: If an entity wishes to obtain a sample to be tested from an individual who lacks capacity to make health care decisions, the entity must have consent for such treatment from the individual’s legally-authorized health care decision maker.

Supervise sample collection and prepare samples for collection

The swabs included in the State provided test kits are Anterior Nares (nasal) samples which can be self-administered or clinically-administered.

The Lower Nasal Swab Collection instructions, developed by Audere, a Washington state nonprofit, contains an animation to demonstrate proper technique.

Following is additional guidance from CDC on collecting the sample

For self-administered tests, the individuals collecting their own sample must be supervised and each individual must follow the following steps as shown in the printable flyers.

Spanish version here

For self-administered tests, the individuals collecting their own sample must be supervised and each individual must follow the following steps as shown in the printable flyers.

Following is additional guidance from CDC on collecting the sample

Using the same swab, repeat steps in your other nostril.