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A wilderness first responder is trained to deal with many situations that may be encountered in the wilderness. The training is principally geared towards lay providers, with little to no actual medical experience, though they are often already professionals in other aspects of the outdoors industry, like park rangers, climbing instructors, and guides.
Wilderness first aid as an established medical discipline is a relatively new phenomenon compared to the more established field of prehospital emergency medicine.While instructional guidelines [1] for curriculum for prehospital emergency medical care have been standardized by the U.S. federal government, [2] [3] there are no current federal regulations defining scopes of practice for varying ...
An wilderness emergency medical technician is an emergency medical technician that is better equipped than other licensed healthcare providers, who typically function almost exclusively in wilderness environments, to better stabilize, assess, treat, and protect patients in remote and austere environments until definitive medical care is reached.
The standard of training and actual procedures and requirements for OEC meet and exceed those of the first responder basic course and the curriculum contains many of the skills identified in the US Department of Transportation (DOT) 1994 EMT-Basic National Standard Curriculum, [2] although training is specific to needs in outdoor scenarios, such as self-reliance and individual skills.
WFR may refer to: Weather Research and Forecasting model; Wilderness First Responder; MEMC Electronic Materials, based on its stock symbol on the New York Stock exchange; The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters, an infantry regiment of the British army; Work Force Reduction (or Work Force Restructuring), a euphemism for layoffs
This is a list of notable co-operative enterprises by country. Co-operatives are business organizations owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. [ 1 ] For a list of Co-operative Federations, please see List of co-operative federations .
CFC manages and funds the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative (RTFC), [5] an organization that provides financing to the rural telecommunications industry. CFC also manages and funds the National Cooperative Services Corporation (NCSC), [6] an organization that provides electric cooperatives with specialized financing services that supplement the financial services of CFC.
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) represents the interests of over 900 electric cooperatives in the United States. Cooperatives are not-for-profit and are owned by their membership.