Running head:  EMT RESPONSE AND MOTOR VEHICLE LAW 1 EMT RESPONSE AND MOTOR VEHICLE LAW 5 EMT Response and Motor Vehicle Law Paul Grasso CSU An EMS training is compulsory to ensure all EMT Response personnel are aware of the importance of EMT Response and Motor Vehicle Law, policy, procedures, and the requirements It also provides awareness of significant legal aspects and associated actual or potential impacts related with their work and the legal benefits of enhanced personal performance. The training gives a provision of the roles and duties in accomplishing conformity with the EMS requirements as well as the potential repercussions of deviating from stated procedures. After the application and hiring process, two levels of EMS training take place managed by the EMS Coordinator who provides training to all new personnel who work in the EMS facilities. In addition, the main objective of this kind of training is to give an overview of what is expected in regard to EMS policy, important aspects, aims, and targets. The EMS Coordinator will identify new employees, develop and maintain training. The specific roles and duties of members of the EMT Response under the EMS are reviewed regularly and periodically revisited so as to approve any changes (Hafter & Fedor, 2004). Competency It is the organization’s position that all EMT Response personnel, in order to be allocated to specific roles within the organization, are technically competent to conduct such responsibilities accordingly as per the stipulated policies, instructions and procedures. The EMT Response technical competency should be evaluated on an individual’s basis utilizing the Performance Appraisal and Recognition System as well as via internal and external audits where compliance audits and laboratory certification audits are done. Any competency deficiencies noted are immediately addressed and corrected. The EMT Response coordinator establishes the competency level required and ability, depending on the training received and the experience of the personnel allocated to particular responsibilities associated with the activities of the EMS. It follows that only competent personnel are allocated EMS-related duties. Tracking of this EMT Response training is based on the kind and objective of the training. This tracking involves training records, attendance records, internal memos as well as agenda minutes. Quality Assurance and Control The consistent adherence to the procedural steps during training should accomplish the desired results associated with the emergency medical services training, legal framework awareness and technical competency of the organization’s personnel allocated to EMT Response duties. In overall, the quality assurance and quality control measures on the success of the personal training, awareness, and competency process are established via both t ...

1. Running head: EMT RESPONSE AND MOTOR VEHICLE
LAW 1
EMT RESPONSE AND MOTOR VEHICLE LAW
5
EMT Response and Motor Vehicle Law
Paul Grasso
CSU
An EMS training is compulsory to ensure all EMT Response
personnel are aware of the importance of EMT Response and
Motor Vehicle Law, policy, procedures, and the requirements
It also provides awareness of significant legal aspects and
associated actual or potential impacts related with their work
and the legal benefits of enhanced personal performance. The
training gives a provision of the roles and duties in
accomplishing conformity with the EMS requirements as well as
the potential repercussions of deviating from stated procedures.
After the application and hiring process, two levels of EMS
training take place managed by the EMS Coordinator who
provides training to all new personnel who work in the EMS
facilities. In addition, the main objective of this kind of training
is to give an overview of what is expected in regard to EMS
policy, important aspects, aims, and targets. The EMS
Coordinator will identify new employees, develop and maintain
training. The specific roles and duties of members of the EMT
Response under the EMS are reviewed regularly and
periodically revisited so as to approve any changes (Hafter &
Fedor, 2004).
Competency
It is the organization’s position that all EMT Response
personnel, in order to be allocated to specific roles within the

2. organization, are technically competent to conduct such
responsibilities accordingly as per the stipulated policies,
instructions and procedures. The EMT Response technical
competency should be evaluated on an individual’s basis
utilizing the Performance Appraisal and Recognition System as
well as via internal and external audits where compliance audits
and laboratory certification audits are done. Any competency
deficiencies noted are immediately addressed and corrected.
The EMT Response coordinator establishes the competency
level required and ability, depending on the training received
and the experience of the personnel allocated to particular
responsibilities associated with the activities of the EMS. It
follows that only competent personnel are allocated EMS-
related duties. Tracking of this EMT Response training is based
on the kind and objective of the training. This tracking involves
training records, attendance records, internal memos as well as
agenda minutes.
Quality Assurance and Control
The consistent adherence to the procedural steps during training
should accomplish the desired results associated with the
emergency medical services training, legal framework
awareness and technical competency of the organization’s
personnel allocated to EMT Response duties. In overall, the
quality assurance and quality control measures on the success of
the personal training, awareness, and competency process are
established via both the internal and external emergency
medical services conformance and legal compliance audit
processes.
State and local laws and Regulations-EMT Response Service
Licenses
The most significant state laws and regulation with which the

3. EMS agency is required to comply that relate to the ongoing
competency of personnel is the First Responder Service License
which is only given for a particular service at a particular level
of operation, and at a single base medical facility. Prior to any
changes to these factors, the service should obtain a new
license. The EMS agency should notify the authority of any
expected change in one of these factors at least a month prior
and make an application for a license renewal. The licensing
authority then renews, cancel or conditionally provide the
license within a period of two months (Porter, 2011).
EMT Response service must be uniquely licensed for each
emergency medical services facility it operates from. The
license covers a single base facility if all EMT responses arise
within a municipality or within a 9-1-1 service area. The
applicant for EMT Response service must prove through precise
demonstration to the legal authority that its personnel is
adequate to offer services consistently throughout the year as
well as have proper training. The license requires the applicant
o prove proper maintenance of internal systems of credentialing
as well as improvement to safeguard the citizens served by the
EMS agency.
Evaluation Instruments Utilized in Measuring Competence in
The EMS Agency
Rubrics may be utilized to determine levels of competency in
the EMS agency where each level of a rubric is described by
particular indicators of the overall competency. The rubrics
provide a description of the criteria required to achieve a high
level of success. The rubrics will describe the quality of
performance within the EMS agency. Rubrics provide both
formative and summative measures of competence in tracking
development assessment over time. An analytic rubric provides
a reflection on the beginning level of competence, movement
toward mastery level of competency, the accomplishment of
mastery level of competence as well as the highest level of

4. competency.
Some of the factors evaluated include; presence of adequate
general liability personnel compensation and medical expert
liability coverage, availability of applicant screening process to
check for crime conviction backgrounds of the EMT Response
Service personnel and other sponsored employees. The service
has the required equipment utilized in delivering services to
areas of need. In addition, any written agreement between the
EMT Response Service and ambulance service that offer
transport its patients enabling a coordinated dispatch where they
remain in effect according to the license duration. Proper,
complete and accurate documentation as well as EMS
certification provision of all EMS response incidents. Such
documentation is available in the SIREN system.
References
DiPrima, P. A., & Benedetto, G. P. (2011). McGraw-Hill's
EMT-paramedic. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical.
Hafter, J. L., & Fedor, V. L. (2004). EMS and the law. Sudbury,
MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Porter, W. J., & American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
(2011). Preplanning for EMS. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett
Publishers.