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Wilderness First Responder Course Planned For Winter Term
Bowling Green, Ky. - Emergency providers and outdoor professionals will be able to receive Wilderness First Responder (WFR) training during Western Kentucky University’s first ever Winter Term.
Hands-on training will help enable participants to provide first aid in areas where advanced medical care may be hours away. The Continuing Education course is scheduled for Jan. 9-17 at Western Kentucky University and at a farm in Warren County. The WFR training course will be taught by David Calvin, a lecturer in the Indiana University Department of Recreation and Park Administration. Calvin is certified as a National Standards Program Certification Instructor from the Wilderness Education Association. Class participants will learn how to deal with medical emergencies when they are miles from help and dialing 911 is not an option. Wilderness medicine differs from traditional first aid in three respects. First, many phases of patient care must occur in the field because transportation to medical facilities may take hours or days. Second, severe environments increase the complexity of any emergency and heighten risks to patients and rescuers. Third, limited equipment makes resourcefulness essential. The WKU Winter Term is a three-week term that runs between the fall and spring semesters, provides opportunities to help move students toward graduation in a timelier manner than the traditional two-semester system. Information on the WKU Winter Term is available online at www.wku.edu/winter. For information on the WFR training, contact Sharon Woodward, director of Continuing Education, at (270) 745-1910 or by email at continuing.education@wku.edu. Continuing Education is a unit of the WKU Division of Extended Learning and Outreach (DELO). DELO delivers quality credit and non-credit educational opportunities to individuals, organizations and the public using flexible and accessible formats. For more information on DELO, visit www.wku.edu/delo. More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you’d like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
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