Practical examination administration

A licensed training institution may conduct practical examinations under the following conditions: 1. The institution must be designated by the department to conduct practical examinations. 2. The facility must have adequate room to accommodate a test. Each test station must be well away from others so that the privacy of the candidate and the security of the test are maintained. There must be a separate monitored room for candidates to wait. The designated department representative may shut down or cancel a test because of inadequate facilities. 3. Test site dates must be approved by the department. For an advanced life support test site, the test site coordinator must notify the department eight weeks prior to the test date and submit a roster of probable candidates for the practical test. For a basic life support test site, the test site coordinator must notify the department two weeks prior to the test date and submit a roster of probable candidates for the practical test. The test site coordinator may accept candidates from other licensed training institutions or department-authorized courses or qualified candidates from other states if the test site coordinator has verified the eligibility of the candidate. 4. The test site coordinator is responsible for all logistics of the test site. The test site coordinator must remain at the test site for the duration of the test. 5. A national registry representative approved by the department or a designated department representative must oversee the test site. The national registry or department representative's only duties are to ensure the integrity of the test site and submit results to the national registry or the department. The designated department representative may not have an affiliation with the training institution. 6. The training institution must provide an adequate number of qualified evaluators for the number of students to be tested. For every eight candidates there must be at least one evaluator. The evaluators may not evaluate a candidate in a practical station for which the evaluator had been a guest lecturer, or had been the training institution coordinator or the primary instructors of the candidates. Evaluators must use and adhere to the department's testing evaluation forms. 7. An emergency medical technician candidate must pass all stations of a practical test site within two years of course completion. The required practical stations are: a. Patient assessment management - trauma; b. Patient assessment management - medical; c. Cardiac arrest management/automated external defibrillator; d. Spinal immobilization, seated or supine; e. Bag valve mask, apneic patient with a pulse; and f. One of the following random skills chosen by the department: (1) Long bone immobilization; (2) Joint dislocation immobilization; (3) Traction splinting; (4) Bleeding control and shock management; (5) Upper airway adjuncts and suction; or (6) Supplemental oxygen administration. 8. A candidate may fail no more than three stations at any one test site. The candidate may retest those failed stations one time on the same day at the discretion of the test site coordinator. If a candidate fails four or more stations, the candidate must retest all stations at a later date. 9. All emergency medical technician practical test results must be reported to the department within one week of the practical test by the department representative. The department will determine the eligibility of the candidates to retest according to department policy. 10. Retesting candidates that have failed all or part of the emergency medical technician practical test will be done in accordance with department policy. The number of times a candidate may retest all or part of the emergency medical technician practical test is determined by department policy. 11. An advanced level practical test site must be approved by the department and comply with national registry rules and policies.