1098 Ride Alongs (administrative)

Question 1

Who is responsible for maintaining this document?

Answer 1

Deputy Chief of Support Services.

Question 2

Who provides an orientation to riders in

accordance with Section?

Answer 2

Officers and In-Charge Paramedics

Question 3

Define:

EMD?

Answer 3

Emergency Medical Dispatcher.

Question 4

Define:

N95 mask

Answer 4

A NIOSH certified respirator with a filter efficiency level of 95% or greater against particulate aerosols free of oil when tested against a 0.3 micron particle.

Question 5

TFD will consider ride-along requests from three categories of individuals who are not uniformed members of the Tacoma Fire Department are?

Answer 5

a. Citizen observers
b. EMS professionals
c. EMS students

Question 6

Citizen observers must be at least be how old?

Answer 6

16 years of age.

Question 7

All requests for ride-alongs must be made on what form?

Answer 7

TFD’s Ride-Along Request form.

Question 8

EMS professionals, must include a letter from his/her employer officially endorsing the ride-along except?

Answer 8

physicians and physician assistants

Question 9

Ride-alongs should begin no earlier than?

conclude no later than?

Answer 9

0730

2200 hours

Question 10

What policy number is Ride-alongs?

Answer 10

1098 administrative

Question 11

Who is responsible for:

1. Receiving requests for EMS professional and EMS student ride-alongs.

Answer 11

The Administrative Paramedic Supervisor

Question 12

Active participation in TFD operations is restricted to EMS activities, and
then typically only by?

Answer 12

EMS students.

Question 13

Riders shall not actively participate in patient care or ride in the patient
compartment when a patient is present or be within six feet of a patient unless s/he has had

Answer 13

a. Training in airborne and bloodborne pathogens within the last year
b. TB (tuberculosis) screening within the last year
c. Immunizations to include Hepatitis B and MMR (measles-mumps-rubella)
d. Training in patient confidentiality
e. Fit-testing for a N-95 mask

Question 14

Any rider who will be actively participating in patient care, riding in the patient compartment when a patient is present and/or who at any time will be within six feet of a patient, must

Answer 14

supply his/her own N-95 mask, unless

s/he has been fit-tested on the same brand and size carried by TFD.