For the purposes of Chapters 4765-1 to 4765-19 of the
Administrative Code, except as otherwise provided, the following definitions
shall apply:
(A)
"Active duty" means full-time duty in the active
military service of the United States or active duty pursuant to an executive
order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the
United States, or a proclamation of the governor. "Active duty" does not
include active duty for training, initial active duty for training, or the
period of time for which a person is absent from a position of employment for
the purpose of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform
any duty unless such period is contemporaneous with an active duty
period.
(A)
(B) "Administrator" or "executive director" means the
individual appointed by the director of public safety pursuant to section
4765.03 of the Revised Code to
serve as the chief executive officer of the board of emergency medical services
and as the executive director of the division of emergency medical
services.
(B)
(C) "Affiliation agreement" means a written agreement
between an EMS training program and any person, as defined in this rule, that
sets forth the roles and responsibilities of the parties, is signed by the
individuals with contracting authority, and that provides for any of the
following:
(1) The use of specified equipment
necessary in the training of EMS personnel;
(2) A site for the clinical experience or
prehospital internship components of an EMS training program;
(3) The use of a facility not owned or leased
by the accredited institution for classroom.
(C)
(D)
"Annual report" means the written documentation submitted by an EMS accredited
or EMS approved institution in a format approved by the board on a yearly basis
to demonstrate continued compliance with certain requirements for a certificate
of accreditation or certificate of approval.
(D)
(E) "Applicant" means
any of the following:
(1) An individual that
makes application for a certificate to practice issued under section
4765.30 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-8 of the Administrative Code;
(2) An individual that makes application for
a certificate to teach issued under section
4765.23 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-18 of the Administrative Code;
(3) Any public agency, private school,
educational institution, emergency medical service organization, vocational
school, college, university, or hospital that makes application to hold a
certificate of accreditation or certificate of approval issued under section
4765.17 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-7 of the Administrative Code.
(F)
"Armed forces"
means the armed forces of the United States, including the army, navy, air
force, marine corps, coast guard, or any reserve components of those forces;
the national guard of any state; the commissioned corps of the United States
public health service; the merchant marine service during wartime; such other
service as may be designated by congress; or the Ohio organized militia when
engaged in full-time national guard duty for a period of more than thirty
days.
(E)
(G) "Authorizing official" means any person who owns
or maintains responsibility on behalf of an individual, corporation, trust,
partnership, or an association for the facilities, equipment, instructors,
managers and other employees of an EMS accredited institution or EMS approved
institution.
(F)
(H) "Automated external defibrillation "or "AED" means
the process of applying a specialized defibrillator to a patient of cardiac
arrest, and allowing the defibrillator to interpret the cardiac rhythm and, if
appropriate, deliver an electrical shock to the heart that will allow the heart
to resume an effective electrical activity. Automated external defibrillation
can include either fully-automatic or semi-automatic external
defibrillation.
(G)
(I) "Board" means the emergency medical services board
within the division of emergency medical services of the department of public
safety created in section
4765.02 of the Revised
Code.
(H)
(J) "Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health
Education Programs" or "CAAHEP" means a national agency that accredits
postsecondary allied health educational programs upon the recommendation of its
collaborating committees on accreditation.
(I)
(K) "Certificate of
accreditation" means the certificate to operate one or more EMS training
programs issued by the board pursuant to section
4765.17 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-7 of the Administrative Code.
(J)
(L) "Certificate of
approval" means the certificate to operate an EMS continuing education program
issued by the board pursuant to section
4765.17 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-7 of the Administrative Code.
(K)
(M) "Certificate of
completion" means a document issued by the EMS accredited institution or the
EMS approved institution in accordance with section
4765.24 of the Revised Code and
Chapters 4765-7 and 4765-18 of the Administrative Code.
(L)
(N)
"Certificate to practice" means the certificate to practice as an emergency
medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical
technician, or paramedic issued by the division pursuant to section
4765.30 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-8 of the Administrative Code as directed by the board.
(M)
(O)
"Certificate to teach" means the certificate issued by the board pursuant to
section 4765.23 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-18 of the Administrative Code allowing an individual to instruct
through an EMS accredited institution or an EMS approved institution.
(N)
(P)
"Clinical experience" means EMS training in a hospital or other clinical
setting that allows an EMS student to develop and utilize EMS procedures and
protocols in a supervised setting and leads to an understanding of hospital
emergency departments as well as their relationship to other departments such
as anesthesia, coronary care, critical care and obstetrics.
(O)
(Q)
"Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical
Services Professions" or "CoAEMSP" means the national organization that reviews
and recommends the national accreditation of EMS education programs to the
"Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs."
(P)
(R)
"Contact hour" means equal to fifty to sixty minutes of continuing
education.
(Q)
(S) "Continuing education coordinating board for
emergency medical services" or "CECBEMS" and
"commission on accreditation for prehospital continuing education" or
"CAPCE"means
mean the national accrediting body for EMS continuing
education courses and providers.
(R)
(T) "Continuing
education instructor" or "CE instructor" means a person who holds a certificate
to teach an EMS continuing education program, issued in accordance with section
4765.23 of the Revised Code and
rule
4765-18-15
of the Administrative Code.
(S)
(U) "Cooperating
physician advisory board" means those physicians whom an emergency medical
service organization has designated pursuant to section
4765.42 of the Revised Code, to
perform the duties of medical director including establishing medical protocols
that must be followed in the delivery of emergency medical services.
(T)
(V)
"Distance learning" means an EMS training program or EMS continuing education
program that is taught in real-time and is interactive between the student and
the entity offering the course. Distance learning education takes place when an
instructor and student(s) are separated by physical distance, and technology
(i.e. voice, video, data, and print), often in concert with face-to-face
communication, is used to bridge the instructional gap.
(U)
(W)
"The division" means the division of emergency medical services within the
department of public safety.
(V)
(X) "Drop back" is the
process by which an EMS provider chooses to become certified to practice at a
lower level than the one at which the EMS provider is currently
certified.
(W)
(Y) "Educational improvement plan" means the
documentation submitted by the EMS accredited institution or EMS approved
institution in a format approved by the board, which demonstrates progress
toward becoming compliant with the area(s) of deficiency as specified by the
board.
(X)
(Z) "EMS" means emergency medical service as defined
in section 4765.01 of the Revised
Code.
(Y)
(AA) "EMS accredited institution" or "accredited
institution" means any public agency, private school, educational institution,
emergency medical service organization, vocational school, college, university,
or hospital within Ohio that holds a certificate of accreditation issued under
section 4765.17 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-7 of the Administrative Code.
(Z)
(BB) "EMS approved
institution" or "approved institution" means any public agency, private school,
educational institution, emergency medical service organization, vocational
school, college, university, or hospital within Ohio that holds a certificate
of approval issued under section
4765.17 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-7 of the Administrative Code.
(AA)
(CC) "EMS assistant
instructor" means a person who holds a certificate to teach an EMS training
program or EMS continuing education program, issued in accordance with section
4765.23 of the Revised Code and
rule
4765-18-18
of the Administrative Code. All course instruction and preparation must occur
under the mentorship of a certified EMS instructor.
(BB)
(DD) "EMS continuing
education program" means courses related to EMS operation or patient care
which, when successfully completed, result in certificates of completion from
an approved institution or accredited institution and satisfy all of or a
portion of the continuing education requirements in order to renew a
certificate.
(CC)
(EE) "EMS training program" means the collective group
of initial EMS courses at each specified certification level which, when
successfully completed, results in a certificate of completion from an
accredited institution.
(DD)
(FF) "EMS instructor"
means a person who holds a certificate to teach an EMS training program or EMS
continuing education program, issued in accordance with section
4765.23 of the Revised Code and
rule
4765-18-05
of the Administrative Code.
(EE)
(GG) "EMS instructor
training program" means a
an EMS training program as outlined in Chapter 4765-18
of the Administrative Code, offered by an accredited institution which, when
successfully completed, results in a certificate of completion and prepares
students to be instructors in emergency medical responder, emergency medical
technician, advanced emergency medical technician, and paramedic, or any other
type of EMS instruction.
(FF)
(HH) "EMS instructor
trainer" means a person appointed by the accredited institution who has met the
requirements as outlined in Chapter 4765-18 of the Administrative Code, and who
teaches an EMS instructor training program through an accredited
institution.
(GG)
(II) "EMS provider" means a holder of a certificate to
practice at any level issued pursuant to section
4765.30 of the Revised
Code.
(HH)
(JJ) "Extraglottic" or "Extraglottic
extraglottic device" means an airway device residing
above the vocal cords.
(II)
(KK) "Good
reputation" or "good standing" means:
(1) If
an individual, is in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local
regulations, is not the subject of an investigation or disciplinary action by
any agency of the federal, state, or local government, or has not been denied a
license or certificate, or had a license or certificate limited, suspended, or
revoked by any public agency or licensing agency.
(2) If a corporation, business trust, estate,
trust, partnership, association, government unit or other entity, is in
compliance with all federal, state, or local regulations that are applicable to
its operations, is not currently under investigation by any agency of the
federal, state, or local government, or has not been denied any necessary
licenses or certificates, or had such licenses or certificates limited,
suspended, or revoked.
(JJ)
(LL) "Government
unit" means the state and any county, municipal corporation, township, or other
political subdivision of the state, any department, division, board, or other
agency of the state or a political subdivision.
(KK)
(MM) "Guest lecturer"
means a person who does not hold a certificate to teach as an EMS instructor,
assistant EMS instructor, continuing education instructor or special topic
instructor and provides instruction or assistance in an EMS training program or
EMS continuing education program under the auspices of a holder of a
certificate to teach.
(LL)
(NN) "Hospital" has
the same meaning as in section
3727.01 of the Revised
Code.
(MM)
(OO) "Independent study" means a self-paced learning
EMS continuing education program developed for individual use that, has been
approved and is provided by an EMS accredited or EMS approved
institution.
(NN)
(PP) "Knowledge examination" means the written portion
of the initial examination, as set forth in rule
4765-8-05 of the
Administrative Code.
(OO)
(QQ) "Letter of
review" means an official document, issued by the "Committee on Accreditation
of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions," that
indicates a paramedic program is in the process of obtaining accreditation
through the "Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education
Programs."
(PP)
(RR) "Medical direction" means the written or verbal
authorization of a physician or cooperating physician advisory board,
designated pursuant to section
4765.42 of the Revised Code,
that may be required prior to the performance of certain prehospital emergency
medical services by a
an emergency medical responder, emergency medical
technician, advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic.
(QQ)
(SS)
"Moral turpitude" means the act of baseness, vileness, or the depravity in
private and social duties that one owes to society, contrary to accepted and
customary rule of right and duty between human beings.
(RR)
(TT)
"NHTSA" means the national highway traffic safety administration.
(SS)
(UU)
"Offsite location" means any location within Ohio where an EMS training program
or EMS continuing education program is offered in addition to the location that
was designated and authorized in the application for a certificate of
accreditation or certificate of approval in accordance with Chapter 4765-7 of
the Administrative Code.
(TT)
(VV) "One-half
contact hour" means equal to twenty-five to thirty minutes of continuing
education.
(UU)
(WW) "Online education" means EMS training programs or
EMS continuing education programs delivered by correspondence,
telecommunications, internet and web-based media, or combinations of media, and
may include short periods of on-campus attendance.
(VV)
(XX) "Person"
includes any individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust,
partnership, association, government unit or other entity.
(WW)
(YY)
"Physician assistant" or "PA" means a person who possesses a current and valid
certificate to practice under section
4730.08 of the Revised
Code.
(XX)
(ZZ) "Practical examination" means the practical
portion of the initial examination, as set forth in rule
4765-8-05 of the
Administrative Code.
(YY)
(AAA) "Preceptor"
means a person who supervises EMS students in accordance with section
4765.49 of the Revised Code and
evaluates EMS students during clinical or prehospital internship required by
the EMS training program and who is licensed or certified at a level that meets
or exceeds the level of EMS certification for which the person supervises or
evaluates.
(ZZ)
(BBB) "Prehospital internship" means EMS training
outside of a classroom or clinical facility that allows an EMS student to
develop and utilize EMS procedures and protocols under supervision in a
prehospital setting and affords the opportunity to gain an understanding of the
nature of prehospital EMS practice and the relationship between it and hospital
emergency departments.
(AAA)
(CCC) "Program
coordinator" or "program director" means the authorizing official or that
person designated by the authorizing official of an EMS accredited institution
or EMS approved institution to oversee the administration and operation of an
EMS training program that applies for, or holds, a certificate of accreditation
or certificate of approval issued by the board under section
4765.17 of the Revised
Code.
(BBB)
(DDD) "Program medical director" means a physician who
is involved in the practice or supervision of emergency medicine in a hospital
or prehospital setting and who advises the accredited institution or approved
institution regarding the courses taught within an EMS training program or EMS
continuing education program as set forth in section
4765.16 of the Revised Code and
Chapter 4765-7 of the Administrative Code.
(CCC)
(EEE) "Provisional
certificate of accreditation" means a conditional certificate of accreditation
that is issued by the board to an institution
, applying for renewal
, that is in substantial compliance with rules
4765-7-02
and
4765-7-07
of the Administrative Code. An institution is issued a provisional certificate
of accreditation when identified infractions are correctable and need attention
before a certificate of accreditation can be issued.
(DDD)
(FFF) "Provisional
certificate of approval" means a conditional certificate of approval that is
issued by the board to an institution
,
applying for renewal
, that is in
substantial compliance with rule
4765-7-09
of the Administrative Code. An institution is issued a provisional certificate
of approval when identified infractions are correctable and need attention
before a certificate of approval can be issued.
(EEE)
(GGG) "Regional
physician advisory board" or "RPAB" means the physician advisory board
appointed by the board pursuant to section
4765.05 of the Revised Code to
oversee the delivery of prehospital emergency medical services in each region
of the state.
(FFF)
(HHH) "Reinstatement" is the process by which a holder
of a certificate to practice, certificate of accreditation, certificate of
approval or certificate to teach in Ohio may regain a certificate that has
expired, was voluntarily surrendered or has been revoked.
(GGG)
(III) "Self-study" means a document submitted by an
institution to the "Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the
Emergency Medical Services Professions" as part of the process to obtain an
accreditation issued by the "Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health
Education Programs."
(HHH)
(JJJ) "Special
patient populations" mean patient populations that require special
consideration in terms of medical assessment, medical response, and medical
care. Special patient populations include, but are not limited to, individuals
with obstetric, neonatal, pediatric, geriatric, and special needs challenges.
(III) "Special topics instructor"
means a person who held a certificate to teach special topics issued by the
board in accordance with section 4765.23 of the Revised Code and rule
4765-18-10
of the Administrative Code.
(JJJ)
(KKK) "State medical
director" means the physician appointed by the board to serve as its medical
director pursuant to section
4765.03 of the Revised
Code.
(KKK)
(LLL) "Techniques examination" or "instructional
methods examination" means the examination developed by the division and
approved by the board, that covers teaching
systems.
(MMM)
"Veteran" means any person who has completed service in
the armed forces, including the national guard of any state, or a reserve
component of the armed forces, who has been discharged under honorable
conditions from the armed forces or who has been transferred to the reserve
with evidence of satisfactory service.
