Current through February, 2024
A. Manpower
categories for personnel shall include:
1.
Lay citizens trained in CPR techniques or first aid, or both;
2. First responders;
3. Telecommunicators (including public safety
dispatchers);
4. Basic life support
personnel (EMTs);
5. Advanced life
support personnel (MICTs);
6.
Prehospital registered nurses;
7.
Emergency room or department registered nurses
8. Specialized care registered
nurses;
9. Emergency
physicians;
10. Specialty
physicians;
11. District EMS
medical directors;
12. Medicom
physicians; and
13. EMS training
personnel.
B. There
shall be an adequate number of personnel in the following categories:
1. A sufficient number of trained "911" and
public safety dispatchers to provide staffing twenty-four hours daily at each
designated EMS communications facility;
2. At least two EMTs on each basic life
support ambulance;
3. At least one
EMT and one MICT on each advanced life support ambulance and;
4. At least one district EMS medical director
in the system in each county.
C. Because the state has no direct control in
the following areas, there shall be reasonable efforts to have an adequate
number of personnel in the following categories:
1. At least twenty per cent of the resident
population of each county currently trained in CPR by June 30,1985;
2. At least fifty per cent of all field
police, fire, and lifeguard personnel currently trained as first responders by
June 30,1985;
3. Emergency service
nursing personnel that meet the 1984 Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Hospitals staffing standards for hospital emergency services;
4. Emergency physicians that meet the 1984
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals staffing standards for hospital
emergency services.
D.
State-funded courses used for training and retraining of the EMS personnel
shall include:
1. State-approved CPR
training, using at least the American Heart Association heart-saver
course;
2. State-approved public
safety first responder training using at least the United States Department of
Transportation "Emergency Training Course" dated Hatch 1979;
3. State approved EMT training;
4. State approved MICT training;
and
5. Any other state-approved BLS
or ALS training.
E. The
department of health shall approve all basic life support and advanced life
support courses as required by the board of medical examiners.
F. There shall be annual refresher or
continuing education sessions available for public safety first responder, EMT,
and MICT emergency medical services personnel in each county.
