Kan. Admin. Regs. § 109-17-3 - Sponsoring organization; initial course of instruction
(a) Any sponsoring organization may conduct
an approved initial course of instruction through in-person instruction or
distance learning, or a combination of both.
(b) Each sponsoring organization shall
provide an enrollment roster listing each student enrolled in the course to the
executive director within 20 days of the date of the first scheduled class
session.
(c) Each sponsoring
organization providing an initial course of instruction shall permit each
student and the board access at each scheduled class session for in-person
inspection of the course syllabus and all policies or documents addressing the
following:
(1) Student evaluation of
course;
(2) student
attendance;
(3) student
discipline;
(4) student and
participant safety;
(5) student
requirements for successful course completion;
(6) Kansas requirements for
certification;
(7) student dress
and hygiene;
(8) student progress
conferences;
(9) equipment
use;
(10) infection control;
and
(11) acknowledgement of the
commitment to provide the support as defined in the course curriculum from each
of the following:
(A) Educational medical
director;
(B) ambulance service
director for each ambulance service utilized for field training; and
(C) administrator of each medical facility
utilized for clinical training.
(d) The course syllabus shall include at
least the following information:
(1) A summary
of course goals and objectives;
(2)
student prerequisites, if any, for admission into the course;
(3) instructional and any other materials
required to be purchased by the student;
(4) a description of the clinical and field
training requirements, if applicable; and
(5) instructor information, which shall
include the following:
(A) Instructor
name;
(B) office hours or hours
available for consultation; and
(C)
instructor electronic-mail address.
(e) Each sponsoring organization providing an
initial course of instruction shall provide confirmation of each student's
successful course completion to the board.
(f) Each sponsoring organization shall
schedule a psychomotor skills examination for the student's initial examination
as specified in K.A.R. 109-8-2.
(g)
Each sponsoring organization shall maintain the following course records for
each initial course of instruction for at least three years from the last date
of class:
(1) Course syllabus;
(2) all policies or documents addressing the
listed items in subsection (c);
(3)
student attendance;
(4) student
grades;
(5) student
conferences;
(6) course
curriculum;
(7) lesson plans for
all lessons;
(8) clinical training
objectives;
(9) field training
objectives;
(10) completed clinical
and field training preceptor evaluations for each student;
(11) a copy of each student's psychomotor
skills evaluations;
(12) a
completed copy of each student's evaluations of each course, all instructors
for the course, and all lab instructors for the course; and
(13) a completed copy of the outcome
assessment and outcome analyses tools used for the course that address at least
the following:
(A) Each student's ability to
perform competently in a simulated or actual field situation, or both;
and
(B) each student's ability to
integrate cognitive and psychomotor skills to appropriately care for sick and
injured patients.
(h) Each sponsoring organization providing
initial courses of instruction shall maintain an average pass rate of at least
70 percent on the cognitive examination for certification at each level of
certification that the sponsoring organization instructs for all first attempts
made by the students in the preceding calendar year. Each sponsoring
organization that fails to meet or exceed this average pass rate shall submit
to the board a plan for ensuring that future first-time cognitive examination
pass rates meet or exceed this average no later than March 1.
(i) Any sponsoring organization may allow a
student to enroll late in an initial course of instruction upon submitting to
the executive director a make-up schedule that includes the provision of
educational standards that the late enrollee missed, within seven days of the
student's enrollment.
(j) Each
sponsoring organization providing a paramedic initial course of instruction
shall provide one of the following:
(1)
Evidence that the sponsoring organization has been issued and maintains a
current letter-of-review from the committee on accreditation of educational
programs for emergency medical services professions; or
(2) evidence that the sponsoring organization
holds accreditation from the committee on accreditation of allied health
education programs.
(k)
Each sponsoring organization shall provide any course documentation requested
by the executive director within 30 days of the request.
(l) Violation of any provision of this
regulation may subject the sponsoring organization to a civil fine and may
result in a suspension of sponsoring organization approval.
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