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Clinic, A&M aid students with emergency course:^
By Jackie Vratil
The Battalion
Emergency medical courses
offered by Texas A&M and Scott &
White Clinic help students face
life-or-death situations. These
courses begin at the basic first aid
level and end with certification as
an Emergency Medical Technician.
The University course tract
includes the first-aid course, fol
lowed by Emergency Care and
Transportation and ending with
Emergency Medical Techniques.
Each course lasts one semester.
Kristin Dyer, a senior communi
ty health major, has taken first aid
and ECT and is currently enrolled
in the EMT course. Dyer said she
takes the courses to help her reach
her long-term career goals.
“I knew I wanted to go into
some kind of health profession, so
I knew these courses could only
help,” she said.
The first aid course focuses on
the basics of recognition of health
emergencies and instruction in
personal survival techniques.
Mark Camber, a senior bio
medical science major, took the
EMT course through Scott &
White. Camber said the course’s
structure is more helpful because
the Clinic accomplishes in three
months what takes the University
three semesters.
“I don’t know anything about
the A&M courses, but I did like the
fact that I was certified
after three months,
because I really
didn’t have the
time to do it in
three semes
ters,” he said.
Diane
Simpson,
education
assistant for
Scott & White,
said the purpose
of the course is to
help students meet
the requirements to
pass the Texas State Department
of Health exam.
“The course will certify stu
dents for EMT, which is
the basic life-saving
technique,” she
said. “Then there
is the
advanced-level
course, which
is certification
as a para
medic. It
enables the
person
administer
or IV [needles].”
To receive EMT cer
tification, both emergency
room and ambulance rotations are
to
drugs
required.
Camber said the hospital put
him to work his first day there.
“From the moment I walked in,
I was doing something,” he said. “I
actually had to hold some guy’s
spine straight who was in a car
accident while the doctors
drained the fluid.”
Dyer said she has had only one
emergency room shift, but in the
short time she was there she per
formed CPR on a patient with
sickle-cell anemia.
Camber said these courses
not only look good on a rdsume,
but also give students an idea of
what type of health career is
best for them.
“Even though I loved thedass
wish I could find more time tore,
ly practice it,” he said. “Howeve;
feel I have been exposed to
things that will get me on my
to medical school
Simpson said the studem
enrolled in her courses rangei
age from 18 to 60, so their re;
sons for taking the course van:
“I have had housewives
want to learn because there
been an accident in the houses
some time,” she said. “And, lhai
had people who have just bee
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interested after watching 9111 ^ by Coi
ER . For the most part, peoplef®
it very self-fulfilling.”
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This semester, the members
made phone calls for the recent
Student Government Association
opinion poll.
The committee has goals of its
own to accomplish, besides provid
ing students to help with the associ
ation’s programs.
Lewis said they want to get the
College Station water tower painted
maroon and white. They also want
to erect billboards outside all the
major cities in Texas. The billboards
would be made by committee
members and would have messages
asking A&M students not to drive
drunk and therefore avoid adding
their names to Muster roll call.
Programs such as these will
increase Aggie awareness across
Texas, Lewis said.
Committee members also will
participate in activities such as Big
Event and opposing the demolition
of Mount Aggie.
Members will work the voting
tables during spring elections.
The committee is open to all stu
dents through an application
process. Once a student is a mem
ber, they must obtain a certain
number of points through partic
ipation to stay on the committee.
Members earn points by attend
ing required meetings such as the
general meetings held each semes
ter and sub-committee meetings
held every other week.
Points can also be earned by par
ticipating in the activities support
ed by the committee.
Lewis said there is so much to do
that it is not hard to earn the 30
points it takes to remain a member.
Lewis said that increasing Student
Government awareness, interaction
and experience for the members are
the main goals of the committee.
“These three things are our goals
to get them (committee members)
involved in the ‘other education,”’
she said. “Becoming involved is the
first step to success.”
Lewis said the committee tries to
develop a willingness for hard work
and involvement.
“No matter where you go, get
involved. No matter what the sce
nario, do your best,” Lewis said.
“These are two important themes of
Student Government.”
Lewis said these two themes
must be developed to create the
“Aggie spice" that makes A&M stu
dents different from other students.
Garcia said the committee wants
to be involved and help the students.
“We’re about making changes,”
he said. “We’re always trying to find
something to do. We’re trying to
react to what the students want.”
Ohio River continues to swell from banks
LOUISVILLE, KY. (AP) - Louisville bolted the
gates shut in its floodwall Tuesday as the highest
water along the Ohio River in 30 years pushed
downstream, swamping one town after another
and swelling the ranks of people driven from
their homes.
“I literally broke down and cried at 4 this morn
ing,” Jack Hall said after watching the Ohio lap
through the door of his home in Utica, Ind.
The Ohio was out of its banks from West
Virginia to Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, and the
water wasn’t expected to crest in most places until
Wednesday or later. Thousands of evacuees wait
ed for the river to start dropping; thousands more
downstream moved out as the water rolled closer.
“All I’ve got is the clothes on my back,” Mike
Donley said after leaving his home in New
Richmond, Ohio, a community of some 2,500
people about 20 miles upstream from Cincinnati.
The river was engorged by runoff from record
downpours over the weekend that already had
forced thousands of people from their homes along
smaller streams in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohioan;
West Virginia. A total of 50 deaths had been blarm
on the Hooding and the weekend’s tornadoes.
Most states had no estimate of the numbers
people evacuated. In Kentucky alone, “by allmea
surements, it would be in the tens of thousands
state emergency management spokesman Doi
Armstrong said.
President Clinton declared 14 counties in
Ohio and nine in Kentucky disaster areas, mat
ing them eligible for federal assistance.
City crews in Louisville worked to close thetj
gateways in the city’s 1 1 /2-foot-thick concrete
floodwall. They first had to build a framework
around each opening, and then bolt a huge sheet
of aluminum across it.
The gateways, openings for streets, also wereio
be sealed with some 120,000 sandbags by the time
the river crested late Wednesday at about 13
above the 23-foot flood stage. After the river
begins receding, a second, slightly lower crestis
expected Friday.
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