Pennsylvania Code
Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Part VII - Emergency Medical Services
Subpart A - EMS System
Chapter 1023 - PERSONNEL
Subchapter B - EMS PROVIDERS AND VEHICLE OPERATORS
Section 1023.24 - Emergency medical responder
Universal Citation: 28 PA Code ยง 1023.24
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) Roles and responsibilities. An EMR performs for an EMS agency BLS skills involving basic interventions with minimum EMS equipment as follows:
(1) As a member of a QRS to stabilize and
improve a patient's condition until a higher level EMS provider arrives at the
scene. The EMR may then assist the higher level EMS provider if requested to do
so.
(2) As a member of the crew of
an ambulance or squad vehicle.
(3)
As a member of a special operations EMS service.
(b) Certification.
(1) The Department will certify as an EMR an
individual who meets the following qualifications:
(i) Completes an application for EMR
certification on a form or through an electronic process, as prescribed by the
Department.
(ii) Is 16 years of age
or older.
(iii) Has successfully
completed an EMS provider educational course for EMRs or by October 12, 2013, a
first responder educational course previously approved by the Department as an
educational course leading to first responder certification.
(iv) Has a current certificate evidencing
successful completion of a CPR course acceptable to the Department.
(v) Has passed a written examination for EMR
certification prescribed by the Department or passed an examination which the
Department has determined to be equivalent in both content and manner of
administration to the written examination for EMR certification.
(vi) Has passed a practical test of EMR
skills for EMR certification prescribed by the Department or passed an
examination which the Department has determined to be equivalent in both
content and manner of administration to the practical test of EMR skills for
EMR certification.
(2)
The Department will also certify as an EMR an individual who completes an
application on a form or through an electronic process, as prescribed by the
Department, and who applies for EMR certification under §
1023.21(g)
(relating to general rights and responsibilities).
(c) Triennial registration.
(1) An EMR's certification is deemed
registered for 3 years. Thereafter, an EMR shall triennially register the
certification by completing a form or through an electronic process, as
prescribed by the Department. An EMR shall submit the form or complete the
electronic process at least 30 days prior to the expiration of a current
registration. Failure to do so in a timely manner may result in the EMR
certification not being registered again before the prior registration expires.
The Department will issue a new registration within 30 days after the EMR
completes the form or the electronic process if the information provided
establishes that the EMR has successfully completed one of the following:
(i) The EMR practical skills and written
knowledge triennial registration examinations prescribed by the
Department.
(ii) The continuing
education requirements for triennial registration of an EMR certification in
§
1023.31(b)
(relating to continuing education requirements).
(2) An EMR who is a member of the armed
forces who is returning from active military service and whose EMR registration
has expired or will expire within 12 months after returning from active
military service may secure an exception to the triennial registration
requirements under § 1023.21(d).
(d) Scope of practice.
(1) An EMR's scope of practice includes
skills in the following skill areas, as published in the Pennsylvania
Bulletin, if the EMR has been educated to perform the following
skills:
(i)
Airway/ventilation/oxygenation.
(ii) Cardiovascular circulation.
(iii) Immobilization.
(2) An EMR's scope of practice may be
expanded to include BLS skills in other skill areas as the Department publishes
in a notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. An EMR may not
perform those additional skills unless the EMR has received education to
perform those skills and is able to document having received the education in
one of the following:
(i) A course approved by
the Department that covers the complete curriculum for certification as an
EMR.
(ii) A course which is
determined by the Department to meet or exceed the standards of a course
approved by the Department under subparagraph (i).
(iii) A course for which the EMR may receive
continuing education credit towards triennial registration of the EMR's
certification or, if the EMR was previously certified as a first responder, a
course for which the EMR received continuing education credit towards first
responder recertification prior to October 12, 2013.
(3) The Department will publish in the
Pennsylvania Bulletin, at least biennially, a list of the
skills the Department has approved as being within the scope of practice of an
EMR.
This section cited in 28 Pa. Code § 1023.23 (relating to ambulance attendant and first responder); and 28 Pa. Code § 1023.31 (relating to continuing education requirements).
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