Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 263

263 Registered nurses

(1) To the extent necessary to practise nursing, a registered nurse is authorised to administer an S2 or S 3 poison.

(2) To the extent necessary to practise nursing in a rural hospital or an isolated practice area, a rural and isolated practice area endorsed nurse is authorised to supply an S2 or S 3 poison to or for a person requiring treatment at the rural hospital or in the isolated practice area.

(3) To the extent necessary to practise nursing at a hospital within an isolated practice area, a registered nurse is authorised to supply an S2 or S 3 poison, on the oral or written instruction of a dentist, doctor, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant, to a person being discharged from the hospital or to an outpatient of the hospital.

(4) To the extent necessary to practise nursing under a sexual health program, a sexual health program nurse is authorised to supply an S2 or S 3 poison under the sexual health program nurse DTP.