A beginning course for adults to learn basic knowledge to administer first aid for yourself and others until help arrives.
Two Days, one night, coed, 16+. Instruction focuses on safety always! Designed for the outdoor enthusiast, backpacker, dayhiker or wilderness survivalist with little first aid knowledge. Students learn in-depth wilderness first aid skills and priorities of injuries. Learn practical hands-on treatments for basic wounds, heat and cold injuries, common injuries such as sprains, strains and abrasions to burns, dislocations, fractures and spinal injuries. Learn to select and assemble your individual first aid kit (IFAK). Students leave this course prepared to administer first aid on yourself, family member, friend or foe. Never enter the wilderness without being prepared to help others.
Mountain Shepherd’s Wilderness First Aid 101 course also qualifies those students who are certified National Registry Paramedics/EMT’s and Commonwealth of Virginia Certified Paramedics/EMT’s with 16 hours of CAT II continuing education hours. Those students wishing to receive CAT II hours must notify Mountain Shepherd Wilderness Survival School of intent to attend +30 days in advance of course date to receive CAT II hours.
