Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 112

112 Records—ambulance officers, indigenous health workers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners, midwives and rural and isolated practice area endorsed nurses

(1) An ambulance officer, indigenous health worker, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner, midwife or rural and isolated practice area endorsed nurse who obtains a controlled drug must keep a record book.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(2) The ambulance officer, indigenous health worker, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner, midwife or rural and isolated practice area endorsed nurse must—

(a) use a separate record book or a separate part of the record book for each class of controlled drug; and

(b) enter in the book—

(i) for an ambulance officer—full details of each transaction involving a controlled drug administered, obtained or used by the officer; or

(ii) for an indigenous health worker—full details of each transaction involving a controlled drug administered, obtained or used by the worker; or

(iii) for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner—full details of each transaction involving a controlled drug administered, obtained or used by the practitioner; or

(iv) for a midwife—full details of each transaction involving a controlled drug administered, obtained, supplied or used by the midwife; or

(v) for a nurse—full details of each transaction involving a controlled drug administered, obtained, supplied or used by the nurse; and

(c) make the entry as soon as possible after the controlled drug is administered, obtained, supplied or used by the officer, worker, practitioner, midwife or nurse, but no later than the day after it is administered, obtained, supplied or used.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

(3) The ambulance officer, indigenous health worker, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioner, midwife or rural and isolated practice area endorsed nurse must ensure the entry includes the following—

(a) the date and time of the transaction;

(b) the name and address of the person—

(i) from whom the controlled drug is obtained; and

(ii) for whom the controlled drug is supplied or on whom it is administered or used;

(c) the quantity or volume of the controlled drug administered, obtained, supplied or used in the transaction;

(d) the balance of the controlled drug in the officer’s, worker’s, practitioner’s, midwife’s or nurse’s possession after the transaction;

(e) if the controlled drug is administered to a person other than by a rural and isolated practice area endorsed nurse or midwife under the particular drug therapy protocol under which the drug is administered—the name of the doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant authorising the administration of the drug;

(f) the officer’s, worker’s, practitioner’s, midwife’s or nurse’s signature.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.