Category | Title | Description |
Workforce | Accurate Counting of the EMS Workforce | Believes that our nation’s EMS workforce should be accurately counted by the federal government in order to adequately plan for current and future system needs and ensure that our EMS system has the capacity to respond to large scale natural and manmade disasters. |
Education/Certification/Licensing | Enhanced Educational Requirements for EMS | Believes in enhanced educational requirements for the EMS workforce that support the evolving role of EMS. |
Education/Certification/Licensing | Value of EMS Stroke Education | Supports continuing education and skills training in prehospital stroke assessment and treatment for EMS practitioners. |
Role of Government | EMS in Healthcare Policy | Outlines certain principles as crucial to our nation’s healthcare system and supports including them in healthcare policy. |
Workforce | EMS Culture of Personal Resilience and Wellbeing | Supports the development of an EMS culture of personal resilience and wellbeing that allows EMS practitioners to become aware of and learn to adapt to their work and personal life, and cope with significant stressors. |
Operations | National EMS Data Vision Statement | Supports the National Vision for the collection, reporting, use and exchange of EMS data. |
Operations | Ambulance Strike Teams | NAEMT believes that all state and regional EMS systems and large EMS agencies should have Ambulance Strike Teams and Emergency Medical Task Forces established and trained to respond to large-scale emergency/mass casualty incidents. |
Operations | Discrimination in EMS | NAEMT believes that discrimination in the EMS workplace is unacceptable and should never be condoned or overlooked. |
Role of Government | EMS Preparedness Planning | Describes how EMS should be integrated and supported in our nation’s preparedness plans to ensure optimal response |
Injury Prevention | Violence Against EMS Practitioners | NAEMT believes that all EMS practitioners deserve to work in a safe work environment and that they should be afforded the same legal protection against assaults and other acts of violence as their colleagues in law enforcement and the fire service. |
Safety | EMS Patient and Practitioner Safety Bill of Rights | To ensure EMS care is safe for patients and practitioners. |
Role of Government | Minimum State EMS Licensure Requirements | Recommends minimum state EMS licensure requirements. |
Reimbursement | NAEMT Position Statement: EMS Reimbursement Reform | Outlines the need for Medicare reimbursement reform to support quality patient care |
Workforce | Paramedic Transition Training Programs for Military Medical Personnel | Supports the development & funding of military medic to civilian paramedic transition programs. |
Operations | Mobile Integrated Healthcare Vision Statement | Vision statement on Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) & Community Paramedicine (CP) |
Role of Government | EMS as an Essential Public Function | NAEMT believes that the essential life-saving public function fulfilled by emergency medical services (EMS) necessitates support by all levels of government to ensure its viability. |
Safety | Protecting EMS Patient Safety and Quality Information | NAEMT believes that EMS agencies should have access to & utilize mechanisms that encourage & promote the evaluation necessary for continued improvement in the delivery of emergency patient care. |
Safety | Just Culture in EMS | NAEMT supports and encourages the establishment of a “Just Culture” environment within all EMS agencies. |
Role of Government | Lead Federal Agency for EMS | Outlines the necessity for the support of the Federal government in the EMS system |
Reimbursement | Medicare Reimbursement | Outlines NAEMT's position on Medicare reimbursement to EMS services for care provided. |
Operations | Medical Direction of EMS | Supports medical direction and oversight of all EMS systems. |
Workforce | EMT or Paramedic Participation in Capital Punishment | Participation in capitol punishment contrary to fundamental goals and ethical obligations of EMS. |
Workforce | Pay and Benefits for EMS | Supports equitable pay and benefits for all EMS practitioners. |
Operations | Operational Safety and Domestic Preparedness & Planning | Outlines general requirements for operational safety and domestic preparedness plans |
Ambulance Safety | EMS Ambulance Safety | Outlines general principles and requirements for ambulance safety. |
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