2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-5175 — Terms, defined.

Section 71-5175
Terms, defined.

For purposes of the Emergency Medical Services Act:

(1) Ambulance means any privately or publicly owned motor vehicle or aircraft that is especially designed, constructed or modified, and equipped and is intended to be used and is maintained or operated for the overland or air transportation of patients upon the streets, roads, highways, airspace, or public ways in this state, including funeral coaches or hearses, or any other motor vehicles or aircraft used for such purposes;

(2) Board means the Board of Emergency Medical Services;

(3) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure;

(4) Emergency medical service means the organization responding to a perceived individual need for immediate medical care in order to prevent loss of life or aggravation of physiological or psychological illness or injury;

(5) Out-of-hospital emergency care provider includes all certification classifications of emergency care providers established pursuant to the act;

(6) Patient means an individual who either identifies himself or herself as being in need of medical attention or upon assessment by an out-of-hospital emergency care provider has an injury or illness requiring treatment;

(7) Person means an individual, firm, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, company, association, or joint-stock company or association or group of individuals acting together for a common purpose and includes the State of Nebraska and any agency or political subdivision of the state;

(8) Physician medical director means a qualified physician who is responsible for the medical supervision of out-of-hospital emergency care providers and verification of skill proficiency of out-of-hospital emergency care providers pursuant to section 71-5178;

(9) Protocol means a set of written policies, procedures, and directions from a physician medical director to an out-of-hospital emergency care provider concerning the medical procedures to be performed in specific situations;

(10) Qualified physician means an individual who is licensed to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to sections 71-1,102 to 71-1,107.14 or osteopathic medicine and surgery pursuant to sections 71-1,137 to 71-1,141 and meets any other requirements established by rule and regulation;

(11) Qualified physician surrogate means a qualified, trained medical person designated by a qualified physician in writing to act as an agent for the physician in directing the actions or recertification of out-of-hospital emergency care providers; and

(12) Standing order means a direct order from the physician medical director to perform certain tasks for a patient under a specific set of circumstances.

Source:

Laws 1997, LB 138, § 4

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska