Safety and First Aid in the Field

21-22 March 2024

M. Frank Förster, UNIGE

Mme Mona Lüder, UNIBE

Dr. Michelle Wright, General Practitioner, Health First

Amanda Gaille, Nurse, Health First

Pascale Rey-Widmer, Kintsugi Coaching

The HealthFirst courses are lively, practical and packed full of information that is easy to understand and remember. During the courses, there is the opportunity for plenty of hands-on practice. A number of different training techniques are used to ensure a high-quality course that equips you with the skills necessary to cope with different First Aid situations. Dr Michelle Wright will also draw on her personal experiences to bring the course alive with real-time scenarios that you will act out to practice your newly acquired skills.

1st day: Module 1: Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Basic Skills (3.5 h) & Module 2: First Aid in the Mountains (3.5 h)

2nd day: Lecture and discussion on stress management/behaviour in emergency situations (Pascale Rey-Widmer)

The second day will look at first aid from a psychological perspective. We will look at the basics of stress and stress management. We will learn how the psychological state of emergency influences perception and behaviour. And we will apply practical methods for psychological stabilisation for ourselves and for others.

Pascale Rey-Widmer is an industrial and organisational psychologist with a focus on stress and stress management and additional training in psychosocial first aid. She has worked for 15 years in the field of personnel and organisational development in largescale companies in Switzerland. Further, she has been a member of the Care Team of the Canton of Berne for 8 years, where she is also a team leader and speaker on the subject of stress management. On a freelance basis she counsels people after crises and loss, especially child loss with "Kintsugi Coaching".

UNIBE

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