Wednesday, november 2, 1977
page 9
daily nebraskan
U N L students come to the rescue
By Jane Johnson
The dispatcher at a Lincoln ambulance company takes
the incoming emergency call. With the flash of bright red
lights and a moan of the siren, UNL business majors John
Schafer and John Hibberd are off to work.
"We put our'Jives on the line constantly," Schafer said.
"One never knows what the situation will be. It is differ
ent every time."
Schafer and Hibberd, who each work 40 to 50 hours
per week, began their jobs as radio dispatchers. They now
are ambulance attendants.
To qualify for the job Schafer had ambulance training
in Scottsbluff, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
training and all offered Red Cross courses. Hibberd had
all the basic Red Cross courses. Both have had Emergency
Medical Technician Ambulance (EMTA) training, an 81
hour course.
"No matter how much training you have, you've got to
experience a real situation for yourself to learn " Schafer
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Basic duties of the two are to check all equipment on
the ambulances upon their arrival at work. They then wait
for a call to come through the dispatcher.
"The more we know about a call the better prepared
we are to handle it," Hibberd said. "It is dangerous to go
Husker jail-bound
Percy Eichelberger, former UNL football player, will
begin serving a 20-day jail term tonight for a misdea
meanor assault and battery conviction, according to
county court records.
Eichelberger's attorney, Brad W. Burden, said the sen
tence may be appealed.
The jail term and a $100 fine result from the January
assault of a UNL woman student in Schramm Residence
Hall, according to the records.
Eichelberger originally was charged with second-degree
sexual assault, but a district judge ruled there was
insufficient evidence to support the charge, the records
said.
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out on a call totally blind as to what they call is about."
There are two types of calls. Trauma calls include
accidents, shootings, heart attack victims, and strokes.
Transfer calls involve taking a patient from one location
to another.
Schafer said a hard part of his job is to decide if he
can save a life.
"The victim may be breathing very little and dying,"
he said. "Maybe they could be saved. You have to make
the decision to work on them (give oxygen) or not to.
"There are a lot of psychotics and other unusual
'situations we are called to. You have to learn how to
save your own neck," Schafer said.
"Sometimes we don't even go to the door until the
police are there to assist," Hibberd said.
"It is a high risk job, especially when we hive to go
through red light intersections at 704niles-per-hour.
You don't know if people will stop," Schafer said.
Schafer, a senior, said the main reason he started the
job was to prepare himself for anything that might happen
to himself or a family member.
Hibberd, a junior, said he would like to be a pa'ramedic
someday.
Schafer said he intended to go to medical school but
does not regret staying in business.
"I enjoy meeting people. I like calls where the people
aren't hurt, such as transfer calls," Schafer said. "Some of
the elderly people really have a lot to say, you can learn
from them."
Schafer said the numerous stories about full moons
seem to hold true with his work.
' "It isn't a fallacy. I guess more people are out and
active because it is lighter," he said.
Schafer said suicide calls bother him the most, along
with campus and local bar calls.
"I'm always afraid I will know the victim " he said.
Schafer said he has hardened since he began driving the
ambulance.
"I want to keep learning aboutielping and meeting
people," he said. "I want to learn about living and dying."
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