North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-36 - Emergency Medical Services Personnel › Chapter 33-36-01 - Emergency Medical Services Personnel Training, Testing, Certifcation, and Licensure › Section 33-36-01-03 - Training, testing, certification, and licensure standards for emergency medical services personnel

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The department shall authorize all courses leading to
				  approval, certification, or licensure by the department prior to the course
				  being conducted in North Dakota contingent upon the course being offered by a
				  licensed emergency medical services training institute and on the following
				  requirements:
1. Emergency medical
				responder:
a. Course. A course conducted in
				North Dakota must adhere to the national emergency medical services education
				standards for emergency medical responders as published by the UnitedStates
				department of transportation, national highway traffic safety administration.
				Prior to student eligibility for certification by the national registry,
				competency in the required knowledge and skills must be verified by a North
				Dakota emergency medical services instructor or North Dakota licensed emergency
				medical services training institute.
b. Course instructors. Course instructors
				must be approved by the licensed emergency medical services training institute
				and be knowledgeable in course content, effective in teaching their assigned
				subjects, and capable through academic preparation, training, and experience to
				teach courses or topics to which they are assigned.
c. An emergency medical responder student may
				practice all the skills defined in the scope of practice for emergency medical
				responder while in the classroom and during a clinical or field internship
				while under direct supervision of an instructor or clinical and field
				internship preceptor and if registered with the department as an emergency
				medical responder student.
d.
				Initial certification. Individuals sixteen years of age and older who are
				certified as an emergency medical responder by the national registry are
				eligible for certification by the department. Upon completion and department
				approval of an application, eligible applicants may be certified by the
				department for a two-year period until June thirtieth of the second
				year.
e. Recertification.
An individual that maintains certification from the national
				  registry is eligible for recertification. Upon completion and approval of an
				  application, eligible applicants may be recertified by the department for a
				  two-year period until June thirtieth of the second year.
f. Individuals certified as emergency medical
				responders as of January 1, 2024, and those attending emergency medical
				responder courses approved before January 1, 2024, and certified by June 30,
				2024, will not be required to obtain national registry certification.
(1) Prior to student eligibility for initial
				certification by the department under the conditions identified in this
				subdivision, competency in the required knowledge and skills must be verified
				by a North Dakota emergency medical services instructor or North Dakota
				licensed emergency medical services training institute.
(2) Prior to eligibility for recertification
				by the department under the conditions identified in this subdivision,
				individuals must complete recertification requirements equivalent to those
				required by the national registry.