(a) An EMR may be utilized by a licensed ambulance service if the EMR:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-140-334

  • Ambulance: means any privately or publicly owned land or air vehicle that is especially designed, constructed or modified and equipped and is intended to be used for and is maintained or operated for transportation upon the streets, highways or airways in this state for persons who are sick, injured, wounded, otherwise incapacitated, helpless, or in need of medical care. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Patient: means an individual who, as a result of physical or mental condition, needs medical attention. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Service: means the provision of organized response by ambulances or emergency response vehicles, or the provision of emergency care on an organized basis. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Satisfies all necessary pre-employment background screening to include criminal background and sex offender registry;
(2) Is accompanied with at least one (1) EMT while responding to a request for emergency medical care;
(3) Does not engage in patient care above the EMR’s scope of training and licensure;
(4) Becomes licensed as an EMT within twelve (12) months of the EMR’s initial employment date as an EMR employee or twelve (12) months following the EMR’s initial licensure as an EMR while employed; and
(5) Is not included in a compact between states.
(b) For the purposes of the department‘s emergency medical services standards and categories, an EMR must be regarded as an EMT.
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