Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Our first Solo WFR!!!!

Jan. 26- Feb. 2 was our first time teaching an 8-day Wilderness Medical Associates Wilderness First Responder course without bringing in an outside instructor. This is a pretty big deal to us and has been a long process to get here. The week was intense and overwhelming and also very rewarding and overall went very well. Zach's mom was here to help get the boys to and from school and stay with Brenden. She did the daily tasks at home so when we got home in the evenings we could focus on the next day's lesson planning and hug the kids.
The students did great. We expect a lot from them. We keep them in class 8-10 hours and then give them another 1-2 hours of homework! These students are already trying to juggle their other college courses as well. In 8 days we expect them to retain a large amount of medical information and apply it in practical skills.
Here are some pictures from the week.
Unless marked, the photos were taken by Tim Andries. He has a photoblog at almosteric.ca
Zach instructing:



(So exciting...)
Cori instructing:

(our photo)
"secret" instructor whispers:
the students:


(our photo)
(our photo)
(this is me in the improvised hypo-wrap)
one of the simulations:


(Darren was our "intoxicated" patient)

(our photo)
(Josiah got to be a patient for us this time. He was so excited! His job was to act like he was having a severe asthma attack and a dislocated right knee. He did GREAT!!!!)



4 comments:

Chris said...

Congrats you guys! That is a huge accomplishment. I'll bet you guys love to team teach.

Les Hon said...

Congrats on your first WFR! Glad it went so well, and I have a houseful of people who would love to be accident victims if you ever need it...especially if they get to wear guts on the outside of their bodies...too cool!

Lynne Paulus said...

Great recap and visuals of your class! Thanks for sharing! Congrats on your 1st solo WFR and a successful one at that! Your perserverance after many years is continuing to be a blessing to so many.

Jason Edwards said...

Impressive!!!! Wow!!! You two look so, um, legit. As in, I can catch a glimpse of how you would look to people who didn't know you, who only thought of you as WFR instructors and you totally look the part! Only of course, way hipper, better looking than any other instructors ever. It looks like a great class. God is good, eh? Who would have thunk it back in '98??