NEBRASKA STATEWIDE

EMS CONFERENCE

www.nebraskaems.com

40th Annual Nebraska Statewide

EMS Summer Conference

July 12-14, 2019

Younes Conference Center

Kearney, NE

Thanks to our sponsors!

EMS Billing Services, Inc.

Kearney Visitors Bureau

MED-TRANS AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT

Nebraska Association of Air Medical Services

Nebraska Emergency Health Systems

GENERAL INFORMATION Registration

Stop by the registration desk at the Younes Conference Center to pick up your packet and nametag or to register as a

walk-in.

Registration OPEN: Thursday night from 7-9 p.m.

Friday & Saturday from 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Name Tags & Meals Your name tag badge is required for admission to all classes and for meals. Lunch on Friday and Saturday and the

Awards Banquet Saturday night are included with each paid registration. Please notify us if you have special dietary

needs. You may purchase additional meal or banquet tickets at our conference registration desk.

Classes There will be 4 tracks running on Friday and Saturday morning with Track 4 being our Advanced Life Support (ALS)

track. We will have General Sessions in the afternoon. There will be two (2) tracks on Sunday morning.

Miscellaneous Classroom temperatures vary so please dress in layers.

Only paid participants may attend classes. Children are not allowed.

Continuing Education Attending all sessions for the full conference will result in earning 15 contact hours or 6.25 hours if you attend all of the

sessions for a single day (Friday or Saturday). There are 2.5 hours available on Sunday morning.

Attendance at sessions must be verified by being scanned out at the end of each session. Name badges will have the bar

code to be scanned and must be worn at all times. Anyone arriving more than 10 minutes late after the start of each

session will not be allowed into class. Once the conference is over, you will receive an email with a link to the

conference evaluation. After completing the evaluation, you will be able to print off your certificate.

Vendor Area

Breaks and exhibits will be in the Crystal Rooms located in the Younes Conference Center. Exhibits will be open Friday

and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon.

Entertainment Friday Night—5:30 p.m.

EMS Billing presents the annual Greg Chamberlain Memorial Golf Scramble at Buffalo Ridge.

MED-TRANS AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT presents the annual Sand Volleyball Tournament, and Cook Out at

the courts by the Holiday Inn.

NEW CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT outside by the volleyball courts. Come check it out!

Saturday

Awards Banquet Social hour starts at 6 p.m.

Awards Banquet begins at 6:30 p.m.

Dance with live band will immediately follow the banquet until midnight.

Contact NE Statewide Conference Staff at

nestatewideems@gmail.com or call Carol at 402-880-8203

Registration Information

Full-Conference Registration $200

One-Day Registration $125

Reduced prices are possible because of grant funding from

Nebraska Emergency Health Systems.

To register, go to www.nebraskaems.com

If you are pre-registered, stop by the registration desk at the Younes Conference Center to

pick up your packet and nametag or you may register as a walk-in.

Registration OPEN:

Thursday night from 7-9 p.m.

Friday & Saturday from 7:30 a.m.—1 p.m.

Contact

NE Statewide Conference Staff at

nestatewideems@gmail.com or call Carol at 402-880-8203

2019 Nebraska Statewide EMS Conference Schedule

FRIDAY Track 1 - Room 5 Track 2 - Room 4 Track 3—Room 9 Track 4 ALS—Room 10

0800-0915 STEVE BERRY

Service with a Smile…

A.J. HEIGHTMAN

Chest Trauma

TWINK DALTON

Big Red: Allergy & …

SCOTTY BOLLETER

Surgically Speaking (ALS)

0915-0945 BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK

0945-1100 KEN BOUVIER

Hot Car Deaths

A.J. HEIGHTMAN

Unique EMS Cases

SCOTTY BOLLETER

Bone of the Matter

TWINK DALTON

Ketamine (ALS)

1100-1115 BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK

1115-1230 ONE GENERAL SESSION ONLY

EMS BOARD MEETING F O R A L L (All Rooms -

- OPEN SESSION A T T E N D E E S 4, 5, 9 & 10)

1230-1330 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH

1330-1445 TWO GENERAL SESSIONS ONLY

KEN BOUVIER Heroin - “An American Epidemic” (Rooms 4 & 5)

SCOTTY BOLLETER In the Line of Fire (Rooms 9 & 10)

1445-1515 BREAK BREAK

1515-1630 TWO GENERAL SESSIONS ONLY

STEVE BERRY Finding Humor in the Crazy World of EMS (Rooms 4 & 5)

A.J. HEIGHTMAN M*A*S*H (Rooms 9 & 10)

SATURDAY Track 1 - Room 5 Track 2—Room 4 Track 3—Room 9 Track 4—ALS Room 10

0800-0915 STEVE BERRY

Mama, Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up to be Ambulance Drivers

A.J. HEIGHTMAN

Dislocated Care: Managing Complex & Angulated Knee Injuries

TWINK DALTON

Marijuana: A Matter of Perspective

SCOTTY BOLLETER

Darkness – Part #1

0915-0945 BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK

0945-1100 KEN BOUVIER

Extreme Gun Shot Wounds

A.J. HEIGHTMAN

Chest Trauma (Repeat)

TWINK DALTON

Assessment & Field Thought Process

SCOTTY BOLLETER

Darkness – Part #2

1100-1115 BREAK BREAK BREAK BREAK

1115-1230 KEN BOUVIER

School

(Rooms 4 & 5)

Shootings

STEVE BERRY

Geriatric Depression & Suicide

TWINK DALTON

Capnography & EtCO2

1230-1330 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH

1330-1445 TWO GENERAL SESSIONS ONLY

KEN BOUVIER Heroin… (REPEAT) (Rooms 4 & 5)

SCOTTY BOLLETER In the Line of Fire (REPEAT) (Rooms 9 & 10)

1445-1515 BREAK BREAK

1515-1630 TWO GENERAL SESSIONS ONLY

STEVE BERRY Finding Humor… (REPEAT) (Rooms 4 & 5)

A.J. HEIGHTMAN M*A*S*H (REPEAT) (Rooms 9 & 10)

SUNDAY Track 1 Room 5 Track 2 Room 4

0830-0945 STEVE BERRY

Death on Scene: A Medical…

TWINK DALTON

Big Red: Allergy…(REPEAT)

0945-1015 BREAK BREAK

1015-1130 ONE GENERAL SESSION ONLY

TWINK DALTON

S - T - R

(Rooms 4 & 5)

O - K – E

SSPEAKERS & CLASSES

Steve Berry, BA, NREMT-P; a former teacher and interpreter for the hearing

impaired, Steve has published 11 EMS related cartoon books since his escapades as a

paramedic/EMS instructor began over 35 years ago. Steve has written over 140

monthly humor columns for Jems magazine along with cartoon illustrations for Jems

and EMS World Magazine. A paramedic for Southwest Teller County EMS in

Colorado, Steve seeks world peace along with frequent flyer mileage.

Service with a Smile-Dealing with the Hostile Patient

Many psychiatric calls are purely behavioral in nature. They are often the result of

overwhelming and cumulative stressful events. Most require little more than reassurance and comfort by the health care

provider. We may, however, lose sight of providing such compassion secondary to the accumulated stress we face

ourselves in EMS. By learning how to honor yourself, you can most often disarm behavioral

confrontations without the use of restraints and/or medication.

Finding Humor in the Crazy World of EMS: Welcome to the Dark Side – General Session

Those working in the field of emergency medicine often times have to respond to scenes involving horrific trauma and

death, and yet they must not only keep working the remainder of their shift, but they must

do it again the next day and the next. How do they do this? For many, gallows humor offers a momentary respite from

their sense of loss and pain. Most people outside our profession view this as going beyond the

bounds of good taste. But we know in spite of such tragedies, amusing incidents happen anyway, and that sometimes

humor is the only weapon we have. Sometimes it’s just an inner chuckle that tells us “we’ll get

through this.” We all need to sharpen our senses on calls. Join Steve as he encourages us to enhance our sense of healthy

humor while touching your heart with hope and understanding.

Mama, Don’t Let Your Kids Grow Up To Be Ambulance Drivers

With of all your educational background, strong parental guidance, and common sense you still entered the field of EMS

and despite the availability of mental health counseling and prescription medication you continue to this day to remain

active in the pre-hospital care setting. What the hell is the matter with you? As a new generation of medics prepares to

make the same mistakes you did, what would you pass on to them (without getting arrested) that wouldn’t be found in any

EMS text books and training manual? How can EMS inspire and recruit future generations to join our ranks? No doubt the

advice of keeping your sense of humor would be boldly italicized (just as it is here). Join Steve as he points out life’s

absurdities while exploring the often complex, coded social messages of humor as seen from the extraordinarily unique

EMS point of view.

Geriatric Depression and Suicide

The elderly are more at risk for depression and suicide due to the losses they experience including retirement, the death of

a spouse and/or close friends, cognitive impairment, decrease mobility and medical illness. Depression is not an inevitable

outcome however. There is much that can be done from the standpoint of prevention and treatment. These efforts require

a partnership between the patient, physician, and yes, the prehospital care provider. This class will help you identify those

clinical characteristics of depression and suicide for those elderly patients who are at risk and how to get them the help and

hope they need.

Death on Scene – A Medical Examiners Perspective

The medical examiner/coroner focuses on preserving the evidence while you are bound to try and preserve a life. When

should attempts at resuscitation be avoided and how can EMS develop an effective working relationship with the medical

examiner and police to protect the integrity of the scene without placing the patient’s well-being in jeopardy? There is an

increasing need for EMS personnel to be better prepared in recognizing when to take a “hands off” approach towards the

nonviable patient including training in scene preservation, evidence handling, and legal documentation. Several case

studies will be presented in these often excitable, chaotic, and sometimes dangerous scenarios.

BS, EMT

Scott Bolleter, or “Scotty” as he is known to his friends and colleagues, is a respected

clinician and well know lecturer. He is best known in medicine for his clinical candor, scientific

contributions, and inspiring talks

He is Chair of the Centre for Emergency Health Sciences in Spring Branch Texas. His work at

the Centre includes multi-specialty education and training, research and development, as well

as emergency medical services clinical oversight.

Scotty has been involved in emergency medicine for over thirty-five years. What you may not

know is that his name appears over twenty-five patents in emergent, oncologic and orthopedic

medicine. He was also part of the EZ-IO/OnControl design team, directed global education,

coordinated research, and assisted with regulatory clearances for the VidaCare Corporation, which was sold to Teleflex in

late 2013.

His resume includes the past positions of Education Director and Flight Paramedic for San Antonio AirLIFE; Faculty and

Assistant Program Director for Victoria College; Training Officer and Supervisor for Harlingen Community Emergency

Care Foundation, as well as initial EMS efforts in Aransas County and South East Asia.

Scotty’s reputation has been centered on the advancement of emergency medicine and human compassion. His work has

taken him across the United States and around the world with an impressive list of presentations, research, publication and

accomplishments found in journals, textbooks and video programs.

During his career he has received numerous awards, most notably the 2011 EMS Educator and 2000 EMS Person of the

Year honors from the Texas Department of State Health Services; the 1999 Humanitarian Award from the EMS Associates

of Utah, and Recognition in 1992 for his efforts in pediatrics from the Texas Commissioner of Health.

Surgically Speaking – When the Ordinary Just Won’t Cut It (ALS) Pre-hospital interventions when the ordinary just won’t cut it

Pre-hospital emergency medicine professionals (paramedics, physicians and nurses) frequently encounter unique clinical

challenges. Most situations in the field offer themselves to restrained intervention and conservative management; on

occasion, a patient presentation mandates aggressive maneuvering to save life. This lecture is designed to introduce

facets of the pre-operative, procedural, and post-operative field care conversation: Within this discussion we will

introduce challenges and solutions to bleeding, air-way management, vascular access, thoracic injury care, expedited

amputation, and the critical framework for a coordinated approach ensuring patient and provider safety.

Bone of the Matter - A Fresh Look into Skeletal Injuries Skeletal injuries are a frequent, painful, costly and potentially life-altering emergent complication. Understanding the

fracture's anatomical breadth - form assessment at the point of injury, initial management and ultimately definitive

intervention - will help you provide improved care, and while decreasing needless suffering and potential lifelong

dysfunction.

Darkness Part # 1 (ALS)

Darkness Part #2 (ALS)

In The Line Of Fire… Stress Management Prescription for Providers - General Session

Dealing with the reality of painful situations and incredible stress is more than just a routine part of our work - it can

become who we are. There is little discussion on the part of most health care providers about the impact of what we face

- yet it’s there. The impact of what these situations create is often more than we are able to bare - but we fail to see it.

What is it about our work and life that can push us over an edge we seem to walk along without a care? Why do we

sometimes react when we should respond, and what causes us to inevitably reach out less or not at all? What we need is

within our reach, and it’s just a matter of recognizing that it can be done. In the line of fire is a research based,

experienced centered program that is founded on reality, emotion and recovery. Become a part of a program that will put

the wind back in your sails and sunshine back in your life (even if you thought it wasn’t missing).

Chief Ken Bouvier New Orleans, Louisiana

Chief Bouvier is known nationally and internationally as a professional EMS speaker. In

1975 he began his Fire & EMS career as a volunteer firefighter at the Westwego,

Louisiana Volunteer Fire Department. That same year he was hired by Monsanto

Chemical Company as a firefighter / EMT. In 1982 Bouvier was promoted to be the

Monsanto Fire Chief where he retired in 2012 after serving 37 years.

While working at Monsanto, he went to work part-time for New Orleans EMS as an EMT

Intermediate where he went on to become a paramedic. After retirement from Monsanto in

2012 he went to work for New Orleans EMS full-time as the Deputy Chief of Operations

where he served until he retired in March of 2019.

Chief Bouvier while working at New Orleans EMS served as the commander of most New Orleans major events

including Mardi Gras, Sugar Bowls and Super Bowls.

Chief Bouvier was the recipient of the 1989 National EMT of the Year Award and the 2008 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime

Achievement Award.

Chief Bouvier served as President of the National Association of EMT'S from 2004-2006.

Chief Bouvier has an extensive educational background in both Fire and EMS. He has made written contributions in 11

EMS textbooks. He presently serves on the EMS World Editorial Advisory Board since 1998.

Today, Chief Bouvier continues to serve both Fire & EMS as a professional speaker & educator.

Hot Car Deaths

It happens, on average, once every nine days in the United States, and it is devastating: A child dies of heatstroke

after being left in a parked vehicle. Although there have been cases in which parents are charged with purposely

abandoning their kid in the backseat on a hot summer day, most of the time it's well-meaning, loving caregivers who

make this honest mistake — and that's why statistics of all the children who have died in hot cars shows that

precautions against this are so, so important. As much as some parents believe that they'd never, ever forget about

their tiny passengers, that's actually a dangerous mindset that only increases the likelihood of this continuing to

happen.

Since 1998 about 719 children have died in hot cars. That is an average of about 37 per year. Although Texas,

Florida & California have the most hot car deaths, Arkansas, Mississippi & Louisiana have the most hot car deaths

per capita. Temperatures can rise about 20 degrees inside of a car in just 10 minutes on a hot summer day.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that 61% of non-crash fatalities are caused by heatstroke

inside vehicles.

Heroin “An American Epidemic” – General Session

This session is designed to help Prehospital Care Practitioners, Emergency Nurses & Physicians, Respiratory, X-ray and

Lab Technicians better understand and manage patients that have fell victim to Heroin use. The impact of Heroin use is

felt across the United States with Heroin being identified as one of the most important drug abuse issues effecting

communities coast to coast. It is estimated that 50 million people Worldwide are users of Cocaine, Heroin and Synthetic

Drugs included in those numbers are 700,000 Americans who use Heroin as a recreational drug to seek euphoria or a

pleasurable sensation known on the street as a “Rush”.

Heroin under the chemical name (diamorphine, diacetylmorphine or morphine diacetate) is illegal to manufacture, possess

or sell which makes it also illegal to use. Heroin on the street is known to many as H, smack, boy, horse, brown, black and

tar. Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin business supplies 87% of the Heroin in the World, while production in

Mexico has risen six fold since 2007 which makes it the second largest opium producer.

During this session we will discuss both Basic & Advanced treatment for managing a Heroin overdose. We will discuss

the dangers that Emergency Room Nurses encounter when treating patients of Heroin Overdose. We will explain how

Heroin enters the brain and how it can affect other body functions including breathing and heartrate making it a life-

threatening emergency.

Extreme Gun Shot Wounds

This session is designed to help Prehospital Care Practitioners better understand and manage Extreme Gun Shot Wounds.

Each year nearly 32,000 people are killed as a result of firearms. Medical reports indicate that nearly 500,000 people Dial

911 and use the Emergency Medical Services for Extreme Gun Shot Wounds each year. The high incidence of injury and

death due to firearms is second only to motor vehicle accidents.

This session will use Gun Violence data collected from U.S. Cities including the City of New Orleans "The Big Easy"!

During this session we will discuss types of weapons used and explain the following topics:

Types on Injuries

Mechanisms of Injury

Kinetic Energy

Shock from Blood Loss

Basic and Advanced Life Support

School Shootings “Is Your Department Ready?”

This session is designed to help First Responders, EMT’s and Paramedics to be better prepared to handle incidents where

school children have become victims of gun violence. The increased frequency of School Shootings and other devastating

attacks make preparedness, quick response and accurate assessment by EMS practitioners and other First Responders

essential. Hemorrhage control is critical! During this session we will review shooting incidents where children have been

both critically injured and killed while attending school.

During this session we will explain how your EMS system may become overloaded with request for service. We will also

remind responders that they may be forced to render care to children that they know from the community including their

own.

During this session we will explain scene safety, and how to manage the scene, including dealing with concerned parents.

We will also explain how to respect the crime scene.

We will also explain both BLS & ALS treatment for Gun Shot Wounds.

A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT-P; is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Emergency

Medical Services (JEMS), based out of San Diego, CA.

Prior to joining the staff of JEMS, A.J. served for 17 years as Executi;e Director of the six-

county Eastern PA EMS region in Allentown, PA and then as operations director for

Cetronia Ambulance Corps in Lehigh County.

Throughout his career in Eastern PA, A.J. also served as a paramedic and EMS command

officer with the Bethlehem Township Volunteer Fire Dept. and worked as a paramedic (part-

time) for both the City of Allentown and Bethlehem EMS divisions.

A.J. is a graduate of Temple University and received his Masters Degree in Public

Administration from Lehigh University. A certified EMS and rescue instructor, A.J. has

served on the faculty of university EMS degree programs; community college emergency

service training divisions and fire academies.

A.J. is well known for his work in the area of EMS management and mass casualty incident management.

Chest Trauma: The Silent Killer

This session will dive into the unseen depths of the patient’s chest. JEMS Editor-in-Chief, A.J. Heightman, will exhibit the

effects of trauma on the thoracic region and present assessment tips to help EMS providers recognize and treat these life-

threatening injuries.

EMS Mystery Patients: Unique EMS Cases That Will Challenge Your Mind

Every EMS provider has encountered patients with mysterious vital signs or mechanisms of injury. These patients

challenge your knowledge and skills as you attempt to determine their illness or extent of their injuries. Your second

challenge is to put together a successful treatment plan to manage their problem and transport them to the appropriate

facility. Join A.J. Heightman as he takes you through a series of EMS mystery cases.

EMS Management Lessons from M*A*S*H – General Session

What we can learn from Colonel Potter, Radar and the M*A*S*H team members and apply to EMS operations

and management

This session takes a humorous, but practical, approach to EMS operational and administrative management. A.J.

Heightman uses actual M*A*S*H features clips to illustrate how managers, supervisors and field personnel can improve

their incident management, personnel management, patient care and comfort.

Dislocated Care: Managing Complex & Angulated Knee Injuries

A dislocated knee presents unique challenges to EMS personnel because of the position in which they are found, and the

difficulty immobilizing them and preventing further pain and injury to the patient. The fact is that many crews are ALS

smart but BLS splinting deficient.

EMS personnel must respect the seriousness of knee dislocations and the need to securely immobilize them, preventing all

unnecessary movement. Splints for dislocated knees are easy to apply, but often neglected because crews are either

intimidated by the grotesque appearance of the knee or unfamiliar with ways to securely immobilize them.

This rapid-moving lecture features actual cases mismanaged in the field and presents equipment and techniques that can

be used to properly splint and immobilize these complex injuries.

Twink Dalton is an RN and NPM. She has been very active in EMS serving as a

program director for Creighton University, Trauma coordinator for St. Joseph

Hospital, education coordinator for Omaha Fire and Pridemark Paramedics, and the

Director of EMS for Mountain View Fire and Rescue. She has been involved in

research including immobilization effects in the elderly, use of selective

immobilization and enhancing critical thinking in paramedics.

She retired from the Mountain View Fire Protection District where she was the EMS

Director for 12 years.

She has received several awards from the states of Nebraska and Colorado and from

the National Association of EMS Educators. She is a well-known speaker and author

in the field of EMS.

Big Red: Allergy and Allergic Reactions

This presentation looks at the pathophysiology of allergy and allergic reactions and relates it to signs, symptoms and

treatment in given patient situations.

Taming the Ketamine Dragon (ALS)

Ketamine is now a part of first line treatment for the patient in excited delirium but it has had a troubled past. This

presentation looks at the past experiences with ketamine, including emergence phenomenon, current research and how

ketamine is being successfully used now.

Marijuana: A Matter of Perspective

Marijuana has been used as a therapeutic as well a recreational substance for hundreds of years. This presentation looks at

the current evolution of marijuana and its use. It concludes with experiences in Colorado, where marijuana is legal, and

how it is affecting EMS there.

Assessment and Field Thought Process

Assessment forms the basis of our patient care and treatment but do we do it well? And once we find an abnormality, what

does it tell us? This presentation takes an in depth look at physical assessment and ties in knowledge of A&P and

pathophysiology to make physical assessment something you’ve never heard before.

Capnography and EtCO2 (ALS)

Ok, so we know what it can do to ensure endotracheal placement, but what can it do for other conditions? Can it really

help in anything other than RAD? The answer is a resounding yes! This presentation shows how it can help identify and

determine treatment in the patient with sepsis, PE, an internal bleed and an OD. EMT and PM

Stroke and the 5 Stroke Syndromes

When you were in school did you ever learn that there were 5 distinct stroke syndromes? Did you learn how to assess for

them? Most have learned the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale but this exam only picks up 2 of the 5 syndromes. This

class educates on the 5 syndromes and acquaints the participant with the MEND exam that will pick up 2 more. EMT or

PM level

Nebraska Board of Emergency Medical Services – General Session

This will be a public comment session during the open session of the Nebraska Board of Emergency Medical Services

quarterly meeting. (This meeting is open to the public.)

Friday, July 12, 2019

All NEW

CORNHOLE

Tournament

Meet by the volleyball courts at 5:30.

SEE YOU THERE!

Friday, July 12, 2019

The Greg Chamberlain

Memorial Golf Scramble

Buffalo Ridge Golf Course

2 Person Best Ball—SHOTGUN start at 5:30 p.m.

See ANY Statewide EMS Conference Committee Member to sign up.

Pay your registration fee at the course.

REDUCED PRICE for 40th ANNIVERSARY

$25 per person / $50 per team

(Fee covers cart, green fees, t-shirt

and end of tourney meal)

All beverages must be purchased at the golf course,

no coolers.

Sponsored by

EMS Billing Services, Inc.

Friday, July 12, 2019

Annual SAND Volleyball

Tournament & Cook Out

Teams: 6 or more members,

minimum - 2 FEMALES

Free will donations accepted to

benefit the GREG CHAMBERLAIN

MEMORIAL FUND

Meet at the Holiday Inn outdoor

volleyball courts at 5:30 .m.

Sponsored by:

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Awards Banquet

Social hour starts at 6 p.m.

Awards Banquet begins at 6:30 p.m.

Dance with Bases Loaded will immediately

follow the banquet until midnight.

2019 Nebraska Statewide

EMS Conference

Award Nomination Form

I would like to submit a nomination for the following award:

EMS Person of the Year—This award is given to one person who would normally go unrecognized and who has

worked hard to improve EMS in his or her region.

EMS Service of the Year—This award is given to a volunteer or paid rescue service who has been active in community

service, public relations, and continuing education this past year, consequently improving their quality of patient care

and helping to educate the public concerning EMS.

Kenneth Kimball Award—This award is given to a person who has played an important role in improving the quality

of the EMS system throughout the state of Nebraska.

EMS Physician Medical Director Award—The nominee for EMS Physician Medical Director should be an EMS

Physician who has a special interest in EMS issues and development, actively involved with medical control activities

with a licensed ambulance service; and enhances communication between medical direction and the field providers.

The nominee should provide positive effects on system-wide education and quality improvement activities.

The Greg Chamberlain EMS Impact Award—This award is dedicated to the memory of Greg Chamberlain, the past

President of the Nebraska Statewide EMS Conference who died in April, 2009. This award recognizes a person whose

actions exemplify inspiration and motivation. The recipient of this honor reflects the characteristics of one who carries

on the knowledge and passion that the award’s namesake did. This individual’s actions and efforts have made a

significant impact on the EMS education community of Nebraska.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________

When nominating, please remember to mention any activities this person or service participates in. Examples

may include community service, self-improvement, quality and exceptional service to the area, town, county or

state of Nebraska.

* Please attach or include a letter of nomination with this form.

Letters can be mailed in or emailed up to July 1, 2019.

AFTER July 1, 2019 nominations will be accepted at our EMS Conference in Kearney by a Statewide

Committee member up until noon on Saturday, July 13, 2019

Name of Individual or Service: _____________________________________________________

Address of Individual or Service: ___________________________________________________

Name & phone # of person making nomination: _____________________________________

Complete and mail nominations to:

Karen Bowlin, Awards Chair Email to: fire6262@gmail.com

Nebraska Statewide EMS Conference

400 RD West 30

Ogallala, NE 69153

Nebraska Statewide Award Nomination Form Guidance

The Nebraska Statewide Conference Committee knows there are some very deserving individuals serving the EMS

community of Nebraska. To assist with the nomination paperwork, the Awards Committee has developed some suggestions

to assist with how to make nominations for awards. We have looked at previous nomination winners and have formed

some suggestions on the paperwork that needs to be submitted to the committee. If anyone has more questions, please

email the Awards Committee Chair – fire6262@gmail.com

1. Plan to do the nomination before the conference. This will assist with adding to the nomination letters from other

squads, community leaders, Medical Directors, hospital staff, and other members of your service. We need to see

how the nominee is providing above and beyond what all other providers in the state are doing as part of their job.

2. Be sure to fill out the nomination form completely. We often get nominations that do not tell us what award the

nomination is for.

3. Be creative! We have even received a scrapbook on one ambulance service.

4. All the documentation can be emailed when you have it finished or you can bring it to the conference and turn it in

when you get there. It helps a lot if this is a thought-out process and not a last minute nomination.

Please help the committee award those that are doing amazing things for your service and the state.