North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-11 - Licensing of Emergency Medical Services › Chapter 33-11-01.2 - North Dakota Ground Ambulance Services › Section 33-11-01.2-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
Words defined in chapter 23-27 of the North Dakota Century
				  Code shall have the same meaning in this chapter. For purposes of this
				  chapter:
1. "Advanced life support
				ambulance service" means an emergency medical services operation licensed under
				and meeting all requirements of
				chapter
				33-11-03.
2. "Ambulance run" means the response of an
				ambulance vehicle and personnel to an emergency or nonemergency for the purpose
				of rendering medical care or transportation, or both, to someone ill or
				injured, including canceled calls, no transports, and standby events where
				medical care may be rendered.
3.
				"Department" means the department of health and human services.
4. "Designated trauma center" means a
				licensed hospital with a trauma designation as defined in section
				33-38-01-06.
5. "Dispatch center" means a dispatching
				service that operates on a continual basis with dedicated personnel and
				receives ambulance run requests from a public safety answering point and radio
				dispatches ambulances.
6. "Driver's
				license" means the license as required under sections 39-06-01 and 39-06-02 of
				the North Dakota Century Code.
7.
				"Emergency medical service vehicle operator" means an individual who operates
				an ambulance or other emergency medical service vehicle and has had emergency
				vehicle operation training.
8.
				"Emergency medical technician" means an individual certified by the national
				registry of emergency medical technicians as an emergency medical technician.
				An emergency medical technician is eligible for licensure as an emergency
				medical technician upon completion of a license application and approval by the
				department.
9. "Equivalent" means
				qualifications reasonably comparable to those specifically listed as required
				for training, certification, licensure, credentialing, or
				recognition.
10. "Headquarters
				ambulance service" means the base of operations for an ambulance service that
				operates subordinate substation ambulances.
11. "Industrial site ambulance service" means
				an ambulance service that serves a private organization and not the general
				public.
12. "Licensed health care
				facilities" means facilities licensed under chapter 23-16 of the North Dakota
				Century Code.
13. "Nonemergency
				health transportation" means health care transportation not provided by a
				licensed ambulance service that takes place on a scheduled basis by licensed
				health care facilities to their own patients or residents whose impaired health
				condition requires special transportation considerations, supervision, or
				handling but does not indicate a need for medical treatment during transit or
				emergency medical treatment upon arrival at the final destination.
14. "Paramedic" means an individual certified
				by the national registry of emergency medical technicians as a paramedic. A
				paramedic is eligible for licensure as a paramedic upon completion of a license
				application and approval by the department.
15. "Paramedic with additional training"
				means evidence of successful completion of additional training and appropriate
				periodic skills verification in such topics as management of patients on
				ventilators, twelve-lead electrocardiograms or other critical care monitoring
				devices, drug infusion pumps, and cardiac or other critical care medications,
				or any other specialized procedures or devices determined at the discretion of
				the paramedic's medical director.
16. "Personnel" means an individual
				maintained on an emergency medical service agency roster.
17. "Public safety answering point" means a
				government-operated call center that receives 911 calls from the public and
				dispatches public safety resources.
18. "Revocation" means the official
				cancellation of a license.
19.
				"Sanction" means to impose a penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
20. "Service area" means the geographic area
				that a basic or advanced life support ground ambulance service is obligated to
				provide emergency medical transportation services. This includes emergency and
				nonemergency responses and medically appropriate patient transfers between
				hospitals or other medical facilities.
21. "Specialty care transport" means
				interfacility transportation, including transfers from a hospital to an
				aeromedical intercept site, of a critically injured or ill patient by a ground
				ambulance vehicle, including medically necessary supplies and services, at a
				level of service beyond the scope of the paramedic.
22. "State radio" means the North Dakota
				department of emergency services division of state radio.
23. "Substation ambulance service" means a
				subordinate operation of a headquarters ambulance service.
24. "Suspension" means the temporary
				withdrawal of a license during the period of the suspension.
25. "Trauma patient" means any patient
				meeting the red or yellow criteria of the American college of surgeons national
				guideline for the field triage of injured patients.
General Authority:
NDCC 23-27-04
Law Implemented:
NDCC
					 23-27-04