NORTH COAST EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES Policy # 3603

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Subject: Manpower/Training

Mobile Intensive Care Nurse Training Structure and Instructor Qualifications

 

I. Authority and Reference (incorporated herein by reference)

A. Division 2.5 of the Health and Safety Code.

B. North Coast Emergency Medical Services Policies and Procedures.

II. Purpose

To establish qualifications for sponsoring a Mobile Intensive Care Nurse (MICN) Training Program, and to articulate the management structure and instructor qualifications of the approved programs.

III. Training Program Qualifications

MICN Training Programs may be sponsored by any of the following institutions:

A. Accredited universities and colleges, including junior colleges, community colleges, and private post-secondary schools.

B. Medical Training Units of a branch of the Armed Forces or Coast Guard of the United States.

C. General acute care hospitals which are licensed in the State of California and meet the following requirements:

1. Hold a special permit to operate a basic or comprehensive emergency medical service or have been approved for utilization as a Base Hospital by North Coast EMS, and

2. Provide continuing education to other health care professionals, and

3. Are accredited by the Joint Commission of the Accreditation of Hospitals and Health Care Organizations.

D. Agencies of Government.

E. Providers of continuing education for registered nurses who have Bureau of Registered Nursing (BRN) approval.

IV. Each MICN Training Program is required to provide for the functions of administrative direction, medical quality coordination, and actual program instruction. One or more persons, as qualified, are required to be responsible for the following specific functions, and shall be approved for that function by North Coast EMS.

A. A MICN Training Program shall have a Program Director who shall be a physician or registered nurse, currently licensed in the State of California. The Director must have a minimum of one (1) year academic or clinical experience in advanced life support (ALS) prehospital care within the last five (5) years.

B. Each MICN Training Program shall have a Principal Instructor, who shall be a registered nurse currently licensed in the State of California. This instructor must have a minimum of two (2) years of academic or clinical experience as an R.N. in prehospital emergency care within the last five (5) years.

 

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Subject: Manpower/Training

MICN Training Structure and Instructor Qualifications

 

C. Each MICN Training Program may have a teaching assistant(s) who shall be qualified by training and experience to assist with teaching this course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cross Reference Policy #s: 3602, 3603, 3605,

 

 

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