2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-5179 — Certification classification.

Section 71-5179
Certification classification.

(1) The Legislature adopts all parts of the United States Department of Transportation curricula, including appendices, and skills as the training requirements and permitted practices and procedures for the certification classifications listed in subdivision (2) of section 71-5178 until modified by rule and regulation.

(2) The department and the board shall consider the following factors, in addition to other factors required or permitted by the Emergency Medical Services Act, when adopting rules and regulations for a certification classification:

(a) Whether the initial training required for certification in the classification is sufficient to enable the out-of-hospital emergency care provider to perform the practices and procedures authorized for the classification in a manner which is beneficial to the patient and protects public health and safety;

(b) Whether the practices and procedures to be authorized are necessary to the efficient and effective delivery of out-of-hospital emergency medical care;

(c) Whether morbidity can be reduced or recovery enhanced by the use of the practices and procedures to be authorized for the classification; and

(d) Whether continuing competency requirements are sufficient to maintain the skills authorized for the classification.

Source:

Laws 1997, LB 138, § 8

Laws 2002, LB 1021, § 88

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska