RE: Legal question

["Wesley Copeland" <flyingmedic911@msn.com>]

Joe,

The situation you describe is completely legal.  And in all reality,
National Registry is meaningless in the eyes of the law.  Many states use
Registry for their own licensing requirements, but when you start talking
about jurisdiction, it means nothing.  An MICT from Kansas (without National
Registry), working for a Kansas Licensed air or ground service can go into
another state, (even if it's two or more states away) and initiate or
continue patient care with the same protection as a Nationally Registered 
Medic.  The
protection usually falls under a states mutual aid clause, which works much
the same as how states treat drivers licenses.  From the distances you are
speaking of you are surely referring to a fixed wing transport.  It is not
feasible for a fixed wing to be licensed in every state it could possibly
fly to, so most states only require a service to be licensed in their state
if they are based there or make regular flights into their state, anything
else is simply considered to be a mutual aid situation.

Wesley Copeland, FP-C



> From: "Joe Kubitschek" <joekuby@sbcglobal.net>
> Reply-To: Flightmed <flightmed@flightweb.com>
> To: <flightmed@flightweb.com>
> Subject: Legal question
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:40:42 -0600
>
> I have to ask this because I am very curious.  If a plane is licensed and
> based in say State A with a nurse and medic also licensed and certified in
> State A, plus the medic is NREMT-P. Then the plane and crew fly to State C
> (two states away) and pick up a patient, then fly to State H (six states
> further away) to release a patient as a medical system.  Is this legal?
>
> Thank you for your kind replies.
>
> Joe Kubitschek BSN RN
>
>
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