Section 33-11-01.2-01 - DefinitionsWords 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.N.D. Admin Code 33-11-01.2-01
Effective January 1, 2008; amended effective July 1, 2010.Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2023-391, January 2024, effective 1/1/2024.General Authority: NDCC 23-27-04
Law Implemented: NDCC 23-27-04