North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-36 - Emergency Medical Services Personnel › Chapter 33-36-02 - Licensing of Emergency Medical Services Training Institutions › Section 33-36-02-10 - Practical examination administration

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
A licensed training institution may conduct practical
				  examinations under the following conditions:
1. The institution must be designated by the
				department to conduct practical examinations.
2. The facility must have adequate room to
				accommodate a test. Each test station must be well away from others so that the
				privacy of the candidate and the security of the test are maintained. There
				must be a separate monitored room for candidates to wait. The designated
				department representative may shut down or cancel a test because of inadequate
				facilities.
3. Test site dates
				must be approved by the department. For an advanced life support test site, the
				test site coordinator must notify the department eight weeks prior to the test
				date and submit a roster of probable candidates for the practical test. For a
				basic life support test site, the test site coordinator must notify the
				department two weeks prior to the test date and submit a roster of probable
				candidates for the practical test. The test site coordinator may accept
				candidates from other licensed training institutions or department-authorized
				courses or qualified candidates from other states if the test site coordinator
				has verified the eligibility of the candidate.
4. The test site coordinator is responsible
				for all logistics of the test site. The test site coordinator must remain at
				the test site for the duration of the test.
5. A national registry representative
				approved by the department or a designated department representative must
				oversee the test site. The national registry or department representative's
				only duties are to ensure the integrity of the test site and submit results to
				the national registry or the department. The designated department
				representative may not have an affiliation with the training institution.
6. The training institution must
				provide an adequate number of qualified evaluators for the number of students
				to be tested. For every eight candidates there must be at least one evaluator.
				The evaluators may not evaluate a candidate in a practical station for which
				the evaluator had been a guest lecturer, or had been the training institution
				coordinator or the primary instructors of the candidates. Evaluators must use
				and adhere to the department's testing evaluation forms.
7. An emergency medical technician candidate
				must pass all stations of a practical test site within two years of course
				completion. The required practical stations are:
a. Patient assessment management - trauma;
b. Patient assessment management -
				medical;
c. Cardiac arrest
				management/automated external defibrillator;
d. Spinal immobilization, seated or supine;
e. Bag valve mask, apneic patient
				with a pulse; and
f. One of the
				following random skills chosen by the department:
(1) Long bone immobilization;
(2) Joint dislocation immobilization;
(3) Traction splinting;
(4) Bleeding control and shock management;
(5) Upper airway adjuncts and
				suction; or
(6) Supplemental
				oxygen administration.