The department of health and human services shall assist in the training of emergency medical services personnel of certain emergency medical services operations as determined by the department and financially shall assist certain emergency medical services operations as determined by the department. Assistance provided under this section must be within the limits of legislative appropriation. The department shall adopt criteria for eligibility for assistance in the training of emergency medical services personnel of various types of emergency medical services operations. The department may establish minimum and maximum amounts of financial assistance to be provided to an emergency medical services operation under this section. If applications for financial assistance exceed the amount of allocated and available funds, the department may prorate the funds among the applicants in accordance with criteria adopted by the department. No more than one-half of the funds appropriated by the legislative assembly each biennium and allocated for training assistance may be distributed in the first year of the biennium. For emergency medical service operations subject to section 23-27-07, after June 30, 2025, financial assistance provided by this section must be distributed to the political subdivision having ownership of the licensed ambulance service or the political subdivision responsible for the emergency medical service program for the service area.
23-27-04.3. Emergency medical services personnel training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review - Penalty. 1. The department shall adopt rules prescribing minimum training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review standards for emergency medical services personnel, including community emergency medical services personnel, instructors, and training institutions. 2. Rules adopted must include a definition of minimum applicable standards, a definition of emergency medical services personnel, provide for a mechanism for certifying or licensing persons who have met the required standards, provide a mechanism to review and improve the quality of care rendered by emergency medical services personnel, and define minimum standards for emergency medical services training institutions. 3. Rules adopted must allow emergency medical services instructors to provide direct, entry-level certification training for the levels of emergency medical responder and emergency medical technician, under the oversight of the department and without the requirements of an emergency medical services training institute. 4. Licensing as an emergency medical services training institution is optional. 5. It is a class B misdemeanor for an individual to willfully misrepresent that individual's certification or licensing status as emergency medical services personnel. 6. Quality review and improvement information, data, records, and proceedings are not subject to subpoena or discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action.
23-27-04.4. Supervision of emergency medical services professionals - Scope of practice. Emergency medical services professionals who are employed by a hospital may provide patient care within a scope of practice established by the department. Under this section, these emergency medical services professionals must be supervised by a hospital designated physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, or registered nurse.