Wilderness & Remote First Aid

1. The purpose of teaching Wilderness first aid is to provide individuals a foundation of first aid principles and skills to be able to respond to emergencies and give care to victims in a remote setting. 2. Students will have to show mastering of skills based on an industry established performance checklist. 3. Participates in this course will be broad in range and represent varying levels of education and experience. The participants are primarily from the scouting community so they will be a mixture of adults and youth. There is an age requirement of 14, this is mandated by the governing body of the curriculum (American Red Cross). The minimum age requirement infers that the students will be a freshman in high school. So the reading skills are expected to be at least the eighth grade level and above. Likewise the physical abilities required for some of the performance-based activities should not be a problem for individual 14 and older. 4. Students must be 14 or older and have already completed adult CPR/AED certification to participate in this course. 5. The classroom Layout and grouping of students will be based on the makeup of the class (strengths and weaknesses) and the sponsoring organizations capabilities. Only part of the instruction is classroom based, it is limited. The real learning takes place in the field or outdoors. So the sponsoring organization and the available assets and resources determine or drive the overall learning outcome. 6. Introductory procedures: the motivator will be a compilation of still pictures or videos in a presentation form. 7. Various amounts of specialty equipment will be required. To perform medical care, extraction and so forth. Coordination will be made with local fire departments and emergency medical services to acquire the appropriate material resources and/or subject matter experts as assistant instructors in order to insure the optimal learning outcome. 8. Visuals will play an important part in the classroom portion. There will be a considerable amount of graphics in the didactic instruction. These will include such elements as videos of process, procedure and operations, and still photos of traumatic injuries and illnesses. Additionally there will be images for the online instruction consisting of the following. Four images representing the three emergency actions steps and Check, Call, Care. A person conducting a physical assessment of a victim, representing Check. A cell phone, representing Call

The universal red cross, representing Care An icon consisting of a green circle with the letter C and the number 3 inside of it. Representing the Check, Call ,Care or C3.

One collective image consisting of six individual images to represent the factors to consider when building a first aid kit. The universal environmental icon, representing environmental considerations. A person, representing Personnel. A calendar, representing Time. The universal hospital icon, representing Distance from definitive care. The universal Medic Alert emblem, representing Pre-existing medical conditions A meter or gauge, representing Level of experience of group members.

A single image to represent Physical assessment. A person overlaid with the letters A, B, C, D, E. Which represent the five steps of the physical assessment: Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability and Expose.

9. Assessment and evaluation of learner understanding will be a combination of knowledge and performance based testing. Completion of this course will require a passing score on the final written exam and successful completion of the wilderness and Remote First Aid practical exercise, which consists of an individuals ability to rescue, treat, and evacuate a victim in a wilderness setting. 10. Previously mentioned the overall learning objective is for an individual to be able to mitigate someone elses emergency. This requires that each individual show mastery of the key concepts in the course and also successfully complete the capstone event.