WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER COURSE (80 hours)
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Course Description: This course is essential for anyone who spends significant time in remote places or who has a professional career in the outdoors, the Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course will prepare you to make difficult medical decisions. This course is fast-paced and engaging. You'll spend half your time outside of the classroom doing hands-on skills and realistic scenarios. In addition to scenarios, you'll participate in a full-scale night mock rescue. WMI's curriculum encompasses a wide range of topics including long-term patient care, wound management, straightening angulated fractures, reducing dislocations, litter packaging and administering medications. You'll complete this course with the tools and confidence to manage patients in the backcountry for multiple days. The intensive 80-hour curriculum is nationally recognized and supported by the Wilderness Medicine Institute's Medical Advisory Panel. You'll be taught by dynamic educators who have practiced both wilderness and urban medicine. This 10-day (80 hour) course is ideal for all professionals operating in remote environments. Adult CPR certification is included. The WFR course is pre-approved for 70 hours of EMT CEU’s by CECBEMS.
What can you expect? Dynamic instructors with lots of back country experience. To be spending lots of time outside – realistic scenarios. International group of participants. Expect to help out with meals and clean-ups. All your meals and lodging is included in the course price but we ask our participants to help our with chores. No one will miss course time in order to help out. Intense but rewarding days. To study hard in the evenings. A night scenario.
To have a day off where you can go into the nearby city, play outdoors or study. Written and practical exam at the end of the course. You need to pass these in order to receive WMI of NOLS WFR certification.
You can expect a curriculum that is evidence-based, not just copied out of a textbook. We teach wilderness medicine practices and protocols that are supported by a physician-based medical advisory panel and disseminated by our curriculum director. This means you're getting the latest findings and protocols in the industry.
This course is designed specifically to provide you with the tools to make critical medical and evacuation decisions in remote locations. Half of your time will be spent completing practical skills, case studies and scenarios designed to challenge your decision making abilities. Adult CPR is included in this course. We do encourage you to browse the text book before the course.
WMI of NOLS Mission: The Wilderness Medicine Institute's goal is to provide the highest quality education and information for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of wilderness emergencies.
For over a decade, the Wilderness Medicine Institute has been the most recognized and respected teacher of wilderness medicine, training over 40,000 students around the world. At WMI, students learn treatment principles and decision-making skills, not the memorization of long lists. Our courses are rigorous and intensive. They will challenge your decision-making skills. And they will get you ready. To date we have run courses internationally in Australia, Canada, Nepal, Columbia, Costa Rica, Chile, India, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, England and Tanzania.
WMI of NOLS is a internationally recognized program that trains participants to respond to emergencies in remote settings.
PETS ARE NOT ALLOWED AT THE COURSE. THIS INCLUDES LEASHING THEM OUTSIDE. NO EXCEPTIONS. Any student bringing pets to class will be asked to leave class until the pet is safely situated in a kennel or other facility.
No alcohol or smoking is allowed on site during class time.
We hope this information is helpful. Please contact Crossing Latitudes if you have questions or need advice in regards to the WFR course.
