2014 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 38 - HEALTH OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS
38-1217 - Rules and regulations.

38-1217. Rules and regulations.

The board shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to:

(1)(a) For licenses issued prior to September 1, 2010, create the following licensure classifications of out-of-hospital emergency care providers: (i) First responder; (ii) emergency medical technician; (iii) emergency medical technician-intermediate; and (iv) emergency medical technician-paramedic; and (b) for licenses issued on or after September 1, 2010, create the following licensure classifications of out-of-hospital emergency care providers: (i) Emergency medical responder; (ii) emergency medical technician; (iii) advanced emergency medical technician; and (iv) paramedic. The rules and regulations creating the classifications shall include the practices and procedures authorized for each classification, training and testing requirements, renewal and reinstatement requirements, and other criteria and qualifications for each classification determined to be necessary for protection of public health and safety. A person holding a license issued prior to September 1, 2010, shall be authorized to practice in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations governing the license for the term of the license;

(2) Provide for temporary licensure of an out-of-hospital emergency care provider who has completed the educational requirements for a licensure classification enumerated in subdivision (1)(b) of this section but has not completed the testing requirements for licensure under such subdivision. Temporary licensure shall be valid for one year or until a license is issued under such subdivision and shall not be subject to renewal. The rules and regulations shall include qualifications and training necessary for issuance of a temporary license, the practices and procedures authorized for a temporary licensee, and supervision required for a temporary licensee;

(3) Set standards for the licensure of basic life support services and advanced life support services. The rules and regulations providing for licensure shall include standards and requirements for: Vehicles, equipment, maintenance, sanitation, inspections, personnel, training, medical direction, records maintenance, practices and procedures to be provided by employees or members of each classification of service, and other criteria for licensure established by the board;

(4) Authorize emergency medical services to provide differing practices and procedures depending upon the qualifications of out-of-hospital emergency care providers available at the time of service delivery. No emergency medical service shall be licensed to provide practices or procedures without the use of personnel licensed to provide the practices or procedures;

(5) Authorize out-of-hospital emergency care providers to perform any practice or procedure which they are authorized to perform with an emergency medical service other than the service with which they are affiliated when requested by the other service and when the patient for whom they are to render services is in danger of loss of life;

(6) Provide for the approval of training agencies and establish minimum standards for services provided by training agencies;

(7) Provide for the minimum qualifications of a physician medical director in addition to the licensure required by section 38-1212;

(8) Provide for the use of physician medical directors, qualified physician surrogates, model protocols, standing orders, operating procedures, and guidelines which may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the Emergency Medical Services Practice Act. The model protocols, standing orders, operating procedures, and guidelines may be modified by the physician medical director for use by any out-of-hospital emergency care provider or emergency medical service before or after adoption;

(9) Establish criteria for approval of organizations issuing cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification which shall include criteria for instructors, establishment of certification periods and minimum curricula, and other aspects of training and certification;

(10) Establish renewal and reinstatement requirements for out-of-hospital emergency care providers and emergency medical services and establish continuing competency requirements. Continuing education is sufficient to meet continuing competency requirements. The requirements may also include, but not be limited to, one or more of the continuing competency activities listed in section 38-145 which a licensed person may select as an alternative to continuing education. The reinstatement requirements for out-of-hospital emergency care providers shall allow reinstatement at the same or any lower level of licensure for which the out-of-hospital emergency care provider is determined to be qualified;

(11) Establish criteria for deployment and use of automated external defibrillators as necessary for the protection of the public health and safety;

(12) Create licensure, renewal, and reinstatement requirements for emergency medical service instructors. The rules and regulations shall include the practices and procedures for licensure, renewal, and reinstatement;

(13) Establish criteria for emergency medical technicians-intermediate, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians-paramedic, or paramedics performing activities within their scope of practice at a hospital or health clinic under subsection (3) of section 38-1224. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to: (a) Requirements for the orientation of registered nurses, physician assistants, and physicians involved in the supervision of such personnel; (b) supervisory and training requirements for the physician medical director or other person in charge of the medical staff at such hospital or health clinic; and (c) a requirement that such activities shall only be performed at the discretion of, and with the approval of, the governing authority of such hospital or health clinic. For purposes of this subdivision, health clinic has the definition found in section 71-416 and hospital has the definition found in section 71-419; and

(14) Establish criteria and requirements for emergency medical technicians-intermediate to renew licenses issued prior to September 1, 2010, and continue to practice after such classification has otherwise terminated under subdivision (1) of this section. The rules and regulations shall include the qualifications necessary to renew emergency medical technicians-intermediate licenses after September 1, 2010, the practices and procedures authorized for persons holding and renewing such licenses, and the renewal and reinstatement requirements for holders of such licenses.

Source

Laws 1997, LB 138, § 7;
Laws 1999, LB 498, § 2;
Laws 2001, LB 238, § 1;
Laws 2002, LB 1021, § 87;
Laws 2002, LB 1033, § 1;
R.S.1943, (2003), § 71-5178;
Laws 2007, LB463, § 501;
Laws 2009, LB195, § 13.