Wilderness First Aid
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Description

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:




Wilderness First Aid in Berkeley

Saturday May 18-19, 2018: 8:00 - 5:00; Sunday March 17, 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.

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@sonic.net.
Include your Sierra Club membership number (if you're a member) and whether you are registering for Saturday and Sunday (highly recommended) or Saturday only. Be prepared to pay the course fee to the instructor in class (cash or check to Steve Donelan).

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.

Textbook
Wilderness Emergency Care by Steve Donelan. You can use the old edition for this class if you have it. If not, order Wilderness Emergency Care, Third Edition Revised from Amazon or the National Association for Search and Rescue (www.wildernessemergencycare.org). It is now published by NASAR, greatly revised and expanded, with all photos in full color.

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?
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.


Basic Wilderness First Aid in Palo Alto
To be scheduled

Registration:

           Email Steve Donelan to register and get the schedule and instructions: donelan@sonic.net. cc: lisa.barboza@gmail.com.
        Then mail your check to Barbara Kelsey, Chapter Coordinator, 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto CA 94303.
        Make it out to Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter and write BWFA on the memo line.
          

           Cost includes national certification.
        $50 for Sierra Club members; $60 for non-members.
         
            Textbook
            Wilderness Emergency Care by Steve Donelan. You can use the old edition if you have it.
        If not, order Wilderness Emergency Care, Third Edition Revised from Amazon
        or from the National Association for Search and Rescue (www.wildernessemergencycare.org).
       

Location: Sierra Club office, Loma Prieta Chapter, 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto

Upgrade your certification to WFA and learn many more skills.
Register for the Sunday session of Steve's next WFA class in Berkeley on March 17 by emailing Steve: donelan@sonic.net.
Include the date when you did BWFA.
$30 for members; $40 for non-members.


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 several textbooks and many articles on emergency care and how to teach it.

 

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Steve Donelan

donelan@sonic.net
last update: February 26, 2019