Unit 4 case study EMS legal

Unit IV Case Study

Consider the scenario you selected in Unit I from your textbook: Considering Malpractice (p. 7) or EMT Response and Motor Vehicle Law (p. 13). As part of the preparations for the legal case involving the employee in the scenario you selected in Unit I, you are now asked to provide an assessment of the organization’s personnel management program, including processes used to ensure personnel are competent to fulfill their duties, have clear guidance, and are made aware of policies and procedures that will impact performance. You should discuss the local and state laws that may apply and their legal implications in this scenario. Continue using the same organization on which you based your Unit III assignment research. You should prepare your assessment as a report that responds, but is not limited to the following questions. What processes are in place to ensure the new employee has read all organizational policies and procedures? What evidence is there that the employee is aware of the expectations for their position? Does the organization have a drug-free workplace commitment? How is this monitored? How are personnel certification and licensure renewals handled? How are ongoing competency and ability to perform the duties of the position monitored?

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Your paper should include a brief introduction of the scenario. You may include other tools for personnel management that you feel may be relevant to the case. Your paper should be a minimum of three pages, not including the title and reference pages. You are required to use a minimum of three sources, one of which may be your textbook. These may include peer-reviewed articles, professional organization websites, and government websites/documents. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations. All references and citations used must be in APA style.

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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 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 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 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.