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Dec 26, 2024
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REC 3120 - Wilderness First Responder
Trains students to respond to medical emergencies in remote settings. Students learn to conduct initial scene surveys and patient assessments as well as to apply the protocols and skills for treating a wide range of medical emergencies, including musculoskeletal injuries, soft tissue injuries, and more. Emphasis is placed on developing and exercising critical decision-making skills required to effectively assess and treat injured patients in the field as well as understanding the circumstances under which medical evacuations from the field should be conducted. Students who successfully complete the course will receive professional certification as a Wilderness First Responder.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to perform systematic patient assessments in diagnosing injuries and illnesses.
- Students will be able to recognize serious traumatic injuries in a wilderness context.
- Students will be able to recognize environmental threats in a wilderness context.
- Students will be able to recognize and treat musculoskeletal injuries in a wilderness context.
- Students will be able to clean and manage wounds in a wilderness context.
- Students will be able to perform CPR and basic life saving skills.
- Students will be able to identify and exercise International Wilderness Protocols in wilderness medicine.
- Students will be able to identify and discuss medical-legal issues as they pertain to wilderness medicine.
- Students will be able to identify the difference between wilderness and urban medicine.
- Students will be able to create and document an accident response report.
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