§ 23-27-04.3 — Emergency medical services personnel training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review - Penalty

North Dakota § 23-27-04.3

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 23: Health and Safety
• Ch. 23-27: Emergency Medical Services Operations Licenses

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licensure, and quality review - Penalty.
1. The department shall adopt rules prescribing minimum training, testing, certification,
licensure, and quality review standards for emergency medical services personnel,
including community emergency medical services personnel, instructors, and training
institutions.
2. Rules adopted must include a definition of minimum applicable standards, a definition
of emergency medical services personnel, provide for a mechanism for certifying or
licensing persons who have met the required standards, provide a mechanism to
review and improve the quality of care rendered by emergency medical services
personnel, and define minimum standards for emergency medical services training
institutions.
3. Rules adopted must allow emergency medical services instructors to provide direct,
entry-level certification training for the levels of emergency medical responder and
emergency medical technician, under the oversight of the department and without the
requirements of an emergency medical services training institute.
4. Licensing as an emergency medical services training institution is optional.
5. It is a class B misdemeanor for an individual to willfully misrepresent that individual's
certification or licensing status as emergency medical services personnel.
6. Quality review and improvement information, data, records, and proceedings are not
subject to subpoena or discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action.