Module 4'3 Policy Updates Operations

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Module 4.3Policy Updates / Operations
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Policy Revisions

• Personnel Investigation Discipline ( 106)
• Eligibility For Prehospital Certificates
  Credentials ( 200)
• EMT Certification ( 201)
• EMT Course Completion By Challenge ( 202)
• EMT Optional Scope of Practice Accreditation (
  203)
• DNR / Advance Directives ( 604)

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Policy Revisions Additions

• Revisions
• Investigation Enforcement ( 810)
• Additions
• Exemption Review Committee Guide ( 830)
• Trauma Plan ( 826)

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Pending EMS Reference Additions

• EMS Quality Improvement Plan ( 825)
• EMS for Children ( 827)
• STROKE Plan ( 828)
• STEMI Plan ( 829)

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Eligibility For Prehospital Certificates
Credentials ( 200)

• Formerly Titled Applicant Eligibility
• Encompasses all Agency issued certificates
  credentials
• Policy revision based on California EMS
  Authoritys guidelines
• Identifies Health Safety Code statutes on
  preclusion
• Provides clear guidelines for denial/revocation
  based on applicants criminal record

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EMT Certification ( 201)

• Added language
• Must meet Policy 200 eligibility requirements
  (for both initial recertification)
• Must complete DOJ Live Scan (Public Safety
  personnel exempt if their affiliated employing
  agency provides EMS Agency with subsequent arrest
  conviction notifications
• Must provide 2 current govt issued photos IDs

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EMT Course Completion By Challenge ( 202)

• Added language
• Must meet Policy 200 eligibility requirements
• Must provide two (2) current government issued
  photos IDs
• Must present current CPR card, which meets AHA
  Guidelines at the Healthcare Provider level

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EMT Optional Scope of Practice Accreditation (
203)

• Added language
• Must meet Policy 200 eligibility requirements
• Must present current CPR card, which meets AHA
  Guidelines at the Healthcare Provider level

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Personnel Investigation Discipline ( 106)

• Policy change required by adoption of The
  Firefighter Procedural Bill of Rights Act -
  Government Code 3250-3262
• Law enacted on January 1, 2008
• Requires Public Safety EMT disciplinary processes
  to follow the procedures identified in the
  Administrative Procedures Act

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Policy 106 Continue

• Non-Public Safety EMT disciplinary processes will
  continue to follow Title 22, Chapter 6 procedures

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Investigation Enforcement ( 810)

• Publication revised enhanced to incorporate
  States adoption of (The Firefighter Procedural
  Bill of Rights Act January 1, 2008)
• Added following government code sections
• Firefighter Bill of Rights (GC 3250-3262
• Administrative Procedures Act (GC 11500-11529)
• Added Admonishments of Rights

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Policies Under Review Development

• Emergency Medical Dispatcher ( 210)
• EMD Program Approval ( 306)
• EMS Resource Permits ( 309)
• Private EMS Dispatch ( TBD)
• Physician Scene Response ( 616)
• CHEMPACK ( 617)
• Unusual Occurrence Report ( 903)