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Outdoor First Aid
St Mary

Outdoor First Aid
St Mary

The course is going to be held at the Youth Service Base at Crabbe, starting at 09.00. Please ensure that you bring food and drink with you for the day. Normally the day will finish between 17.30 and 18.00.

Ensure that you are in clothing that you don’t mind rolling around the floor in. Also if you have a close cell foam sleeping mat, not the inflatable ones, could you bring it with you.

Register your interest

Register your interest

The cost of the course is £125 and spaces are limited so register your interest early. We will contact you to let you know if you have a place and ask for payment.

Course Content

Course Content

A two day course (16 hours). The outdoor first aid course is designed to introduce a systematic way of first aid for managing casualties. Topic learning and practicals intermixed with scenarios of real situations. The course includes:

  • The fundamental workings of the body, in particular the heart, lungs and airway
  • Assessing a casualty
  • Introduces a system to cope with all incidents as safely as possible
  • Deciding how to deal with an accident or incident
  • Awareness of delayed medical help and adverse environmental conditions

First aid training with the REC scheme is easy and fun. The course is progressive by building on each session, introducing new scenarios to test all techniques for:

  • Emergency: vital signs • emergency action • airway • unconscious • choking • bleeding • breathing and circulation • cpr • AED (automated external defibrillator) practical training
  • Environment: heat stress • cold stress • hot injuries • cold injuries
  • Illness: chest pain • stroke • asthma • epilepsy • diabetes
  • Injury: head • spine • chest • abdomen • pelvis • bones • soft tissue • eye
  • Rescue: transportation • communication
Location

Location

St Mary, Jersey JE3 3DP, Jersey