From: Cliff Hall (drcliffhall@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 14:36:59 CDT
Yep. Another option, and maybe a better one, is to
take a Wilderness First Aid course. I took one before
taking our guys to Philmont this year. I'm a
physician and still found the course interesting and
informative precisely because it addressed scenarios
likely to occur in the wilderness and ways to approach
them with materials at hand. Several organizations
offer these in various parts of the country. They
tend to be two day courses offered on a weekend. Well
worth the effort for any scouter, but especially one
who plans to venture far from the reach of 911 with a
group of boys. To find one near you, try doing a
Google search on "Wilderness First Aid".
--- Mike Bingley <mbingley@telusplanet.net> wrote:
> Okay, here9s my Canadian dollar into the ring (which
> equals about two cents
> American):
>
> I9ve taken a lot of first aid courses as well in my
> time, and an awful lot
> of them were very boring, very, very boring. But
> there was one of them that
> I took that I actually enjoyed and learned from. We
> had a trainer that knew
> who he was dealing with (it was in Winnipeg, we had
> four Northern Tier
> staffers with us, six people who were to be working
> at a YMCA camp, a bunch
> of other camp type people and one poor soul who
> thought it might be fun to
> take a first aid course - I still kind of feel for
> that guy).
>
> The trainer went through the usual stuff, and then
> began to run us through
> scenarios - like
you9re in the backcountry and one
> of your crew members has
> fallen and twisted his ankle - what do you do?9 or
>
You made the mistake of
> hiking across a ridge and Jim here got hit by
> lightning - how do you fix
> it?9
>
> Suddenly, a boring course was interesting.
>
> Now, not every first aid trainer is going to know
> enough about the
> backcountry to teach that (and if anybody is close
> to Winnipeg, I can give
> them that trainer9s name off list), but I suspect
> that if you phoned your
> local Red Cross and asked them to set up a special
> course for your Scouts,
> build it into the budget and then sit down with the
> trainer ahead of time,
> you too could have such an experience.
>
> Second Option:
>
> Find some way of getting people in your council
> certified as first aid
> trainers at the council9s expense, on the condition
> that those people will
> have to donate x number of training courses to
> Scouting per year. We have a
> group of young people in our council who do that and
> it saves our leaders
> from having to take such an expensive course all the
> time.
>
> Just a thought
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Bingley
> Council Field Executive
> Scouts Canada - Chinook Region
> 403-327-4647
> 888-321-4647 (Alberta and BC)
>
>
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Cliff Hall MD
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