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 RegulationSubstance 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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