Putting substances into ears

Section 7: Restricted activities that require an order

Nurses (Registered Psychiatric) Regulation, section 7(1)(d):

A registrant in the course of practising psychiatric nursing may put into the external ear canal, up to the eardrum, a substance that is under pressure.

BCCNM limits and conditions

None.

Definition from the Regulation

Substance includes air and water but excludes a drug specified in Schedules I, IA, II, or IV of the Drug Schedules Regulation.

The Regulation makes a distinction between syringing ears using pressure no greater than the pressure created by the use of an ear bulb syringe and syringing ears using greater pressure.

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