REC Advanced

Rescue and Emergency Care First Aid courses are recognised by the MLTUK, Mountain Leader Training N.I. and BOS (the Mountain Leader Training Board in Southern Ireland).  REC Standard applies basic first aid principles to specific outdoor situations. The REC Advanced is a two day (14 hour) course, certified for three years. The course is designed to introduce a systematic method of advanced first aid for managing casualties. It is also a pre-requirement for the Trainers Course.

 

Course Title:	REC Advanced
Course Dates:	17 - 19 November 2008
Cost:	₤300

Who Is This Course For?

This course will seek to provide participants with the skills and confidence to take control of incidents, direct standard first aiders and to deal with more complex emergency situations.

Course Aims

The course is a balance of learning and practical inter mixed with scenarios of real situations.  The course includes:-

• Development of skills gained at Standard Level.
• An in depth review of emergency care topics.
• Use of advanced techniques.
• Further skills development.
• Review of special interest topics by candidates.

An Advanced first aider will be able to take control of an incident and direct standard first aiders. They will be able to deal with more complex emergency situations and use advanced methods.

Skills Covered

Fourteen hour 2 day course.

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.

·      Basic life support – vital signs – blood pressure – Glasgow coma scale

·      Life support – suction – airways – oxygen – shock – fluid replacement

·      Head – spine – chest – abdomen – pelvis – bones – soft tissue – eye

·      Triage – rescue – coordination – casualty management – cpr.

The Assessment

The course is assessed by observation of practical skills, oral questioning, written multiple choice questionnaire  and written assignments.

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 and mountaineers and know the Mournes very well.  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 will have a sound understanding of first aid in an outdoor environment. The next progression is the REC Trainers Course for those who wish to become first aid trainers..