Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HEALTH (DRUGS AND POISONS) REGULATION 1996 - REG 52

52 Anaesthetic assistants and enrolled nurses

(1) Subsection (2) applies to the following persons—

(a) an anaesthetic assistant holding a qualification acceptable to the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists;

(b) an enrolled nurse.

(2) The anaesthetic assistant or enrolled nurse is authorised to possess, under the written instruction of a doctor administering anaesthesia, a controlled drug at a hospital when preparing for, and during, anaesthetic procedures.

(3) Subsection (4) applies to a person (a
"trainee" ) who is undergoing a course of training, the successful completion of which will qualify the trainee to practise as an anaesthetic assistant.

(4) To the extent necessary to undergo the course of training, the trainee is authorised to possess a controlled drug, only if the trainee possesses the drug—

(a) at a hospital, when preparing for, or during, an anaesthetic procedure; and

(b) under the written instruction of a doctor administering anaesthesia; and

(c) under the direction and personal supervision of an anaesthetic assistant mentioned in subsection (1) (a) .