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WLSAR Training programme

Currently, registrations are requested via the member's listserve up to 8 weeks prior to an event. To register, reply to the Wellington Land SAR training co-ordinators.

However, by the end of May 2006, members should be able to register through this website.

If members identify training needs which have not been catered for in the current training schedule, then this should be discussed with the Wellington Land SAR training co-ordinator .

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NZLSAR standards

Section 10 (pages 72 to 74) of the 2nd edition of the New Zealand Land SAR Field Guide (Roger Curl, 2006. ISBN 0-473-04914-7 ) describes 'Patient Care'. This provides a very brief outline of aspects of outdoor first aid. This information is supplemented by NZLSAR SAR First Aid and Patient Care standards (look under 'Medical - approved standards'). More information can be found in the following NZ Mountain Safety Council publications:
  • 'Bushcraft - Outdoor Skills for the NZ Bush' (Goldring and Mullins, 1995. ISBN: 0-908931-11-5) Chapter 18, pp 127 to 130, and
  • 'New Zealand Outdoor First Aid (Griffin and Price, 2002. ISBN 0-908931-14-X)

Expected core competencies

  • Scene Management - Safety and hazards, best access, use limited resources, triage, and resource utilisation
  • Undertaking a primary survey - Basic life support as per National Resuscitation Council guidelines
  • Undertaking a secondary survey
    • Demonstration / explanation and practice physical patient assessment including ethical issues.
    • Demonstration / explanation and practice of vital signs.
    • Demonstration / explanation and practice the use of the recommended Casualty Assessment Form.
  • Completion of the Casualty Assessment Form and transmission via radio to medical expertise (medical advisor / ambulance
  • Patient Care and Comfort - How to care for a patient's comfort including a patient confined to a stretcher, Stretcher handling
  • Understanding of the importance of clinical information, how Medical Advisors use it and respond including examples.
More detailed information can can found in the NZLSAR document, Core Competencies for the Nominated Field First Aider (PDF - 51kB)

WLSAR Patient Care requirements.

First Aid is a core training requirement. All WLSAR members must hold, or have arranged to obtain, a current First Aid Certificate, preferably in Outdoor First Aid. However, WLSAR acknowledges that its own internal First Aid training regime cannot cope with the numbers required to reach this standard. WLSAR has therefore adopted the following policies for First Aid training:

  1. WLSAR will give training priority to members without any current First Aid certification. WLSAR will then work through members who have workplace certificates if such certificates don't meet NZLSAR outdoor First Aid standards.
  2. In addition to WLSAR's own 2-day First Aid Course, WLSAR accepts Outdoor First Aid certificates from Mountain Safety Courses, or other NZQA certified outdoor courses. (WLSAR members often complete outdoor First Aid courses through their own climbing/tramping/NZDA organisations).
    • WLSAR members with certificates from non-WLSAR training courses must ensure that their certification is recorded on the WLSARman database. (teams are constructed using this information)
    • Workplace first aid courses are accepted only as SAR refresher courses, to keep members current once a full SAR First Aid course has been completed. Even with regular workplace first aid training, members should still do the SAR course every six years.
  3. All field teams must contain at least two members with current outdoor first aid certificates.

More Information

Check out the following links, or visit our online document library .
  • The current NZLSAR casualty assessment form - a 2-sided form (PDF - 304kB)
  • NZLSAR Patient Care Standards - (PDF- 78kB)
  • St Johns - training courses.
  • St Johns First Aid Tips - useful First Aid tips on allergic reactions, asthma, burns, diabetes, fractures, head injuries, nose bleeds, poisoning, and shock. Includes the priority action plan (SRABCS).
  • Red Cross First Aid info
  • Wellington Free Ambulance
  • First Aid Consultants - contact details and NZQA reference.
  • Mountain Safety Council - course details.
  • NZ National Resuscitation Council - current CPR guidelines

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