Victorian Consolidated Regulations

Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2006 - SECT 58

Therapeutic need to be determined-nurse practitioners

58. Therapeutic need to be determined-nurse practitioners

A nurse practitioner must not administer, prescribe, sell or supply a
Schedule 3 poison unless-

   (a)  that poison is for the treatment of a person under his or her care;
        and

   (b)  he or she has taken all reasonable steps to ensure a therapeutic need
        exists for that poison.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.