2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 40 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 450B Emergency Medical Services
NRS 450B.195 Program of training in advanced emergency care; maintenance of certification.

NRS 450B.195 Program of training in advanced emergency care; maintenance of certification.

1. Only a certified emergency medical technician who is a licensed attendant or a firefighter with experience as established by the board is eligible for training as an advanced emergency medical technician.

2. A program of training in advanced emergency care for advanced emergency medical technicians must be conducted by a licensed physician and approved by the health authority.

3. In order to maintain certification, each advanced emergency medical technician must annually:

(a) Comply with the requirements established by the board for continuing medical education; and

(b) Demonstrate his or her skills as required by regulation of the board.

4. The board may by regulation prescribe the curriculum and other requirements for training and maintaining certification in advanced emergency care. The curriculum must be at least equivalent to any curriculum prepared by the United States Department of Transportation as a national standard for advanced emergency medical technicians.

5. A person shall not represent himself or herself to be an advanced emergency medical technician unless the person has on file with the health authority a currently valid certificate evidencing the person's successful completion of the program of training required by this section.

6. Except as authorized by subsection 6 of NRS 450B.160, an attendant or firefighter shall not perform, and the owner, operator, director or chief officer of an ambulance or a fire-fighting agency must not offer, advanced emergency care without fulfilling the requirements established by the board.

(Added to NRS by 1973, 610; A 1975, 38; 1979, 71; 1981, 1555; 1985, 1696; 1987, 2210; 1993, 319, 2833; 1995, 725; 2005, 334)