Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 168B

168B Nurse practitioners

(1) To the extent necessary to practise nursing, a nurse practitioner is authorised to—

(a) obtain a restricted drug; or

(b) prescribe a restricted drug; or

(c) administer or supply a restricted drug; or

(d) give someone who may administer or supply a restricted drug an oral or written instruction to administer or supply the drug.

(2) Subsection (1) applies only if—

(a) the restricted drug is mentioned in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods; and

(b) the use of the restricted drug is within the scope of practice of the nurse practitioner; and

(c) for prescribing, administering or supplying the restricted drug to or for a person the nurse practitioner is treating—the practitioner is reasonably satisfied the person needs the drug for a therapeutic use as part of the person’s medical treatment.

(3) A nurse practitioner’s authority under this section is in addition to the nurse practitioner’s authority as a registered nurse under section 175 .