REC Standard (2 day)

 

Rescue and Emergency Care First Aid courses are recognised by the MLTUK and Mountain Leader Training N.I.. REC Emergency applies basic first aid principles to specific outdoor situations. The REC Standard / Mountain First Aid course is at a higher level, while REC Advanced is a pre-requirement for the Trainers Course.

Successful participants have the choice of a Standard certificate or a Mountain First Aid certificate (or both at an additional cost of £5)

 

Course Title:	REC Standard
Course Dates:	18 - 20 January, 10 - 12 october 2008
Cost:	₤150

Who Is This Course For?

This course is for those who have completed the REC Emergency (within the past 13 weeks) and wish to gain first aid skills and qualifications at a higher level whilst covering the HSE syllabus and for those who want to cover the practical elements of mountain first aid in an outdoor environment.

 

Course Aims

To:

·      training for rescue emergency care with the REC scheme is easy and fun

·      the course is progressive by first building on each session by introducing new scenarios to test the techniques

·      Introduce a more in depth look at the workings of the body, in particular, the heart, lungs and airway

·      Help students recognise and quantify the difference between - healthy - ill - injured

·      Give students the ability to record the baseline measurements of the vital body functions

·      Introduce a system to cope with and manage all incidents as safely as possible.

·      help in deciding how to deal with an accident or incident - what to do first - how to avoid further harm

·      Covers the HSE syllabus for first-aiders at work.

 

 

Skills Covered

Sixteen hour - 2 day equivalent

 

·      training for rescue emergency care with the REC scheme is easy and fun

·      the course is progressive by building on each session by introducing new scenarios to test the techniques.

·      emergency                         vital signs - emergency action - airway - unconscious - choking - bleeding            breathing and circulation problems - rescue breathing - cpr - injury - rescue

·      environment                       heat stress - cold stress - gases, fumes, dust - chemicals - toxic poisons

·      health and safety                recording accidents - riddor - faw regs - first aid kits - sick room - scenarios

·      illness                                chest pain - asthma - epilepsy - diabetes - emotion - minor ailments

·      assessment                        reviews material on standard course - practical - written - external           assessors

 

The Assessment

REC Standard care is externally assessed by observation of practical skills - oral - multiple choice questionnaire

 

Our Staff
The instructor(s) who will work with you are all highly experienced and qualified.  Tollymore prides itself in the knowledge and experience that its full time and part time staff bring to its courses.  Our staff are all keen hillwalkers, mountaineers and paddlers and some are involved in Mountain Rescue Teams   You may well have met them in the hills in the past or will bump into them in the future on days when they are not working!
All are obliged to attend annual staff updates and training courses

What do I need to bring?
Candidates need not bring any specific equipment for these courses but should come prepared with clothing suitable for practising first aid scenarios in the outdoors.

 

Tollymore Information
Tollymore Mountain Centre, on the edge of the Mournes, is Northern Ireland’s National Centre for Mountaineering and Canoeing Activities.  It is funded and managed by the Sports Council for Northern Ireland as a National Centre. The Centre is an attractive, purpose-built facility of log construction with accommodation for 30 people in 2, 4 and 6 berth bedrooms.  Quilts, pillows and bed linen are all provided.  The Centre is well appointed with toilets, showers, modern kitchen, lecture room, workshop and drying room.  Outside there is ample parking space, a ropes course and a floodlit granite-climbing wall.  A modern indoor climbing wall is open year round.  The centre is ideally situated on the edge of the Mournes, with quick and easy access to the hills.

The Central Council for Physical Recreation opened Tollymore Mountain Centre in 1969.  In 1974, it passed to the newly established Sports Council for Northern Ireland Trust.  In 1995, Tollymore achieved the management standard BS EN ISO 9001:2000 for the quality systems it operates.   However, as part of Sports Council for Northern Ireland’s ongoing commitment to the development of the National Centre, Tollymore will be undergoing a major redevelopment, commencing in 2007.  The facilities will be improved and expanded, to ensure that Tollymore remains as an example of best practice in the provision of mountaineering, hillwalking, climbing and canoeing courses in Northern Ireland.

Accommodation
Accommodation is included in your course fee.  Accommodation is in comfortable dormitories, and you will have full use of all Tollymore Mountain Centre facilities, including drying room, lounge and access to a wide range of instructional and inspirational videos and books for any spare time. Tollymore has a number of comfortable meeting rooms, where the instructors will meet the group prior to the start of the course each day.  We will also meet here over a cup of tea or coffee for reviewing the course on Sunday afternoon.

Catering
Your course is fully catered, so all you will need to bring is some additional snack food.

What next?
Having completed this course, you should have a sound understanding of first aid in an outdoor environment. The next logical progression is the REC Advanced and the REC Trainers Course.

 

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