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Applied for st.johns last year, due to them rejigging everything I got told I would wait untill this year. People who I put down as referances heard from them a couple of weeks ago so fingers crossed I can start volunteering with them.
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I have first aider training comming up at work (hopefully soon) so i will do it again then
Used to do life saver training (from the pool) too
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I'm a first aider, a reasonably active one at that due to the nature of my workplace.
I've had to deal with mild heart attacks, Burns, cuts with sharp implements, cuts with blunt implements.
Due for a refresher this year I think.
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I did loads in the Army, but only one short course since,.....and that was more than five years ago
Bracken [ my wife on this site for those new members ] is a trainer carer, and used to work for `Crossroads`
A major part of survival is invisibility.
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I did a basic first aid course at work, during my guard training many years ago, emphasis was on keeping yourself alive until you got to a phone, or you missed your check call. Further training along the lines of, keeping yourself alive in a bike crash. or first bike on scene of a crash. Mainly trauma, heart attacks, or putting a tourniquet or splint on a limb. shows how long ago that was.
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was a registered first aider when i was on the building sites some 20 odd years ago, i think i still remember a lot of it and i read my manual again every so often.
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I was first aid qualified in army cadets. Then started teaching other cadets.and In order to make sure I remembered it all I wrote it all into a first aid book so I would never forget any of it. (I hope)