First Aid, Wilderness

Learn how to protect yourself from wilderness hazards and do first aid outdoors or anywhere. We use vivid slides and an interactive teaching style to introduce the concepts, then train you to do the skills and improvise care with whatever you carry for your outdoor trips. National certification is valid for 2 years. Topics include:

Saturday September 15, 2018: 8:00 - 5:00; Sunday September 16, 9 to 5
at the Sierra Club Office, 2530 San Pablo Ave. Suite #1, Berkeley CA
2 options: Basic Wilderness First Aid (Saturday only)
OR Wilderness First Aid (Saturday and Sunday)

These courses are sponsored by the Activities Committee of the Sierra Club (S.F. Bay Chapter), and meet the first aid requirements for Sierra Club outings leaders. Those who do Saturday only will be certified in Basic wilderness First Aid. Those who do both days will learn more advanced skills, do role-playing scenarios, and be certified in Wilderness First Aid. Non-members can register if we have space, though they will not be eligible for the Sierra Club discount, OR they can join the Sierra Club and then register as members.

Registration for Sierra Club members (who are not SF Bay Chapter outings leaders) and non-members
Email the instructor, Steve Donelan, to make a reservation: donelan@speakeasy.net. Some time in September or October, it will change to donelan@sonic.net.
Include your Sierra Club membership number (if you're a member) and whether you are registering for Saturday only or Saturday and Sunday. Be prepared to pay the course fee to the instructor in class.

Cost
To Sierra Club members, $70 for both days (highly recommended); $40 for Saturday only. To non-members, $90 for both days; $60 for Saturday only.

Textbook
Wilderness Emergency Care by Steve Donelan. You can use the old edition for this class if you have it. But the Third Edition, revised and expanded, is now published by the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) with all photos in full color, is now available on Amazon and from the National Association for Search and Rescue (www.nasar.org).

Registration for SF Bay Chapter current outings leaders
Email: firstaid@sfbaysc.org; Phone: (510) 848-0800.
To register as an outings leader, you must mail a $40 deposit check payable to "Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter" This check will be returned to you in class if you show up, but cashed if you do not show up. The chapter pays for both the Saturday and Sunday class, even if a leader's section only requires the one-day class.

Saturday January 19, 2018: 8:00 - 5:00; Sunday January 20, 9 to 5
at the Sierra Club Office, 2530 San Pablo Ave. Suite #1, Berkeley CA
2 options: Basic Wilderness First Aid (Saturday only)
OR Wilderness First Aid (Saturday and Sunday)

Cost
To Sierra Club members, $80 for both days (highly recommended); $50 for Saturday only. To non-members, $100 for both days; $60 for Saturday only.

Registration for SF Bay Chapter current outings leaders
Email: firstaid@sfbaysc.org; Phone: (510) 848-0800.
To register as an outings leader, you must mail a $50 deposit check to the chapter office payable to "Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter", memo "Deposit for WFA leader registration". This check will be returned to you in class if you show up, but cashed if you do not show up. The chapter pays for both the Saturday and Sunday class, even if a leader's section only requires the one-day class.

Repeat Sunday class session for free
Graduates of Steve's 2-day WFA class may participate in future Sunday classes for the SF Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club at no cost, so long as their WFA certifications are current. Just email him in advance, and include the date when you did the class.

Done Steve's 1-day BWFA within the last year? Still have the textbook?
Upgrade your certification to WFA and learn many more skills.

Register for the Sunday class by emailing Steve: donelan@speakeasy.net. Include the date when you did BWFA.
$40 for members; $60 for non-members.

2 options: Basic Wilderness First Aid (Saturday only)
OR Wilderness First Aid (Saturday and Sunday)

Instructor
Steve Donelan has been designing and teaching courses on wilderness and pre-hospital emergency care since 1983, and training instructors almost as long. He is an instructor for the National Ski Patrol and a peer reviewer of their textbook, Outdoor Emergency Care. For the Wilderness Medical Society, he is section editor on education of their journal, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. He is also a contributor and peer reviewer of their Practice Guidelines for Wilderness Emergency Care, which is a consensus of the guidelines and standards. He has published many articles on emergency care and how to teach it.