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.
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