Why it's Important: Being prepared for the unexpected can save lives. The Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course teaches students the skills to anticipate risks and hazards, identify medical, traumatic, environmental problems, recognize life-threatening issues, initiate basic care and deliver a cohesive report. VOC projects and trainings often take place in remote areas, and participating in this training is a great way to increase the safety of your crew.
What you'll learn: This learning experience forces students to think creatively, adapt to ever changing situations, and learn valuable leadership, decision making, and communication skills. Some topics covered in this course include:
- Rescuer, patient and bystander mental health
- Inclusive and compassionate patient care
- Prevention of potential problems
- Performing a basic physical exam, identifying abnormalities and life-threatening problems, obtaining vital signs, patient history, and writing and verbalizing a report for a walk-out evacuation or hand-off
- Treatment and stabilization of emergencies, improvising splints, bleeding and wound control, management of heat and cold illnesses, hydration problems, drownings, lighting injuries, spinal cord protection, basic patient lifts and transfers
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and special considerations for the wilderness, Epinephrine administration, and first aid kit planning for specific activities and needs
Essential Details:
***If you have volunteered or have attended a training with VOC in the past and you would like to register for this training, please email VOC's Leadership and Training Manager, Ben (Ben@voc.org), to let him know and he can activate your account in our software.
Once we activate your account, you'll be able to register for any VOC event as normal. This is a temporary process as we launch our new and improved system.
If you are new to VOC, you will be prompted to create an account upon registration.
- This training costs $250. Please click here to pay for the course and get more details on the exact location. If you cancel within 2 weeks of the training date you will not be refunded.
- This training is on April 13-14. It is required to attend both days of the training.
- This training will take place in Denver, Colorado. Exact location details will be shared once you have registered and paid for the course.
- This training is different than the First Aid and CPR courses also offered by VOC. This course is also different than Wilderness First Responder.
If you have questions or concerns please contact Benjamin Kromash at ben@voc.org
