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Wilderness First Aid Refresher #1 · Monday, November 4th, 2019
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Start: Monday, Nov. 4th, 6:00 pm
End: Monday, Nov. 4th, 8:00 pm
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Description:
This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of wilderness first aid (WFA) practice nights. Each year the VOC arranges discounts on WFA courses, and many of us go and take them - we spend a few days or a week learning WFA skills, put together a first aid kit, toss it in our bag on trips, and maybe even review the course material occasionally. Personally though, I find that with skills like this I need to be practicing them to stay sharp - WFA isn't the sort of thing I want to be trying to figure out on the go. I'm hoping there might be some other folks out there who feel the same!
As I'm not a WFA instructor, and not even someone terribly well versed in first aid, this will NOT be an instructional workshop. This is for folks who have taken their WFA (40/50hr) or WFR (80/90hr) courses (or equivalent) and want to practice their skills to stay fresh should the need ever arise. If you don't have any WFA training and are intersted in possibly learning a bit of wilderness first aid in an informal way, then check out this trip. If you're unsure of whether your first aid background is suitable for this practice session, then please email me and we can talk!
For this first refresher, I'm hoping we can spend a bit of time going over scene assessment, primary and seconary surveys, and what we actually carry with us. The cutoff for signing up as intersted is Thursday, Oct 31. I'll send out an email on Friday, Nov 1 with ideas of what to bring and a schedule of what we'll be doing.
Posted: 2019-10-23 09:27:59
Last modified: 2019-10-23 09:31:34