Safety
This is when non-consensual sexual activity is a crime.
When is always?
There have been a numerous lost staff or student groups, often when a staff breaks off hastily for a forgotten item or for the bathroom. These are some steps to consider to avoid someone getting lost/separated.
What is...
1) stop the group
2) don't go off trail
3) keep the sat phone with the group
This is the preferred call-in time window for non-emergencies.
When is during business hours?
Technology withdrawal.
What is a trigger for anxiety?
This is the duration that instructors should fill out the student health logs.
What is until they demonstrate competency in self care!
The student health logs is quoted as saying,
"This form is used to document each student’s medical status and well-being in the field. Documentation of Rx and OTC medications monitored by OB Staff is required for students under 18yr old. For students 18 and older OTC medication monitored by OB Staff should be documented. General well-being should be documented for ALL students until competency in self-care is demonstrated."
A verbal assessment
What is the water comfort assessment for groups over 18 years of age?
*You basically just need to ask them if they can swim. It's probably good to give them a heads up that the water is really cold, and the hazards that may cause.
This is what you want to do before depressurizing a stove for simmering. (4 incidents in July)
What is... make sure flame is OUT!
The stove should be turned off completely anytime you are unscrewing the fuel pump.
There have also been incidents of students and staff starting stoves with the valve open.
On this course, even though the students are adults, instructors should be monitoring stove use throughout the entire course.
These are options to make sure you are receiving texts.
What is to...
1) dial free # on laminated card, in order to connect to a Satellite?
2) leave phone on for at least 15 min?
3) call your voicemail? (less preferred)
Heart palpitations or chest pain, feeling like you're going to pass out, hyperventilation, feelings of loss of control, trouble breathing.
What are symptoms of an anxiety attack?
This is whom the SAT phone should stay with as a general rule.
Who is the group?
5 miles
At 2 miles (10 seconds between flash/boom) groups should commence lightning drill immediately.
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These are things that can fall down and crush your entire crew.
What are dead standing trees?
This is a best practice when sending a text message.
What is...
1) leaving name, date, and time?
2) requesting a response if desired or needed?
The time it takes for most anxiety attacks to peak.
What is 10 min? (Most will subside completely within a 30 min time period)
These will be stored with staff to minimize the risk of misuse by students.
What are glues, solvents, chemicals, and other hazardous substances [2.7]
Level 2
What is the maximum level of travel any of these crews can get to?
In addition on 18+ courses, instructors should sleep within sound for at least the first 5 nights.
This is the only situation when you are required as a mandated reporter to report an incident that happened with someone who is now an adult.
When adult suffers from some mental incapacity or other disability?
This is the last 7 digits of your SAT phone number
What is your voicemail password?
These are three ways to cope with an anxiety.
What is to...
1) intentional breathing
2) be outside
3) meditate
4) do yoga
5) sleep
6) Set priorities and decide what can be done later
7) keep a journal
8) exercise
This is the ideal thing for the group to do if one instructor needs to evac a student and rendez-vous with the group.
What is to basecamp, or day hike?
These are three characteristics of Adult learners
What are...
1. Adults need to know why they need to learn something
2. Adults are autonomous and self-directed
3. Adults have accumulated life experiences which both inform and define them as individuals
4. Adults become ready to learn when they see the need to learn
5. Adults are life-centered in their orientation to learning
6. Adults are internally motivated
Decreased productivity, avoidance of certain tasks, low motivation, loss of interest, apathy, dissatisfaction, decreased confidence, exhaustion, withdrawal from others, impatience, numbing, nightmares, despair and hopelessness.
What are signs of secondary trauma? (Trauma Informed Practice In Outdoor Education, Westendorf 2018)
Secondary Trauma: A change in the self that can result from either (1)empathetic engagement with a traumatized individual, such as responding to an individual who is triggered by and event on course, or (2)exposure to another person's experience of trauma, such as hearing a person recount a specific traumatic event in their life.
These are the 4 pieces of paper in your sat phone case
What are...
1) Calling card
2) High Sierra call guide 2018
3) Guidelines for calls to parents
4) Iridium 9555 Directions
18.1% of the population
What is the percentage of adults that suffer from anxiety disorders?
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States , affecting 40 million adults in the U.S. age 18 and older, or 18.1% of the population, every year. Anxiety disorders are highly treatable, yet only 36.9% of those suffering receive treatment.
These are two steps you will take if you witness harassment.
What are...
[4.54] Staff will immediately intervene if harassment is alleged or observed
[4.56] Staff will protect students against adverse treatment because of any harassment claims.
[4.57] Staff will notify a program administrator.