The Outdoors Emergency Care text and workbook and the AHA BLS text are all required for this course. When you register, we can sell you all three texts for $100 including postage. Specify a quantity for "OEC Texts" and "CPR Text" when you register.) You can also obtain the OEC textbook, OEC workbook and the AHA BLS teext yourselves. The NSP texts MUST both be fourth edition. The AHA BLS text must reflect the 2005 guidelines.
Outdoor Emergency Care: Comprehensive Prehospital Care for Nonurban Settings 4th edition ISBN:978-0763717155 NSP#544
The Outdoors Emergency Care text maintains OEC’s relevance to the patrolling environment. With sections on how to assess and care for various outdoor sports emergencies, manage mass-casualty incidents, interface with EMS personnel, and care for outdoor adaptive athletes, the fourth edition is designed to help rescuers deal with any emergency situation they might encounter. Contains updates on the special equipment and techniques used by patrollers and other nonurban rescuers. Completely redesigned, this 938-page resource features hundreds of detailed four-color photographs and illustrations to underscore the numerous logistics of nonurban care, whether it entails dealing with environmental illnesses such as altitude sickness, deep frostbite, and hypothermia, or managing ski, snowboard, and other outdoor injuries.
Outdoor Emergency Care (Student Workbook) ISBN:978-0763711948 NSP#:545
The Outdoors Emergency Workbook is designed to accompany the fourth edition Outdoor Emergency Care textbook, chapter by chapter, this excellent resource for the OEC student contains 543 study pages with an answer key at the end. Contains numerous matching, multiple choice, fill-in, and essay questions to reinforce the key components of each chapter, along with scenarios that prompt users to apply their knowledge in realistic situations which evoke specific as well as general emergency care principles and procedures. An essential tool for learning, practicing, and evaluating emergency care knowledge
BLS for Healthcare Providers Student Manual & CD Product
This text for the BLS for Healthcare Providers Course provides updated
content and many new illustrations for credentialed healthcare
providers. It can be used in class as a workbook, before class for
preparation, and as a reference book for the student after the course.
This approximately 80-page book covers core material such as adult and
pediatric CPR (including two-rescuer scenarios and use of the bag
mask), foreign-body airway obstruction, and automated external
defibrillation. A student CD, included with the text, contains
supplemental information for the interested student on topics such as
stroke, cardiac arrest, and special resuscitation situations. Now
formatted in a new style that makes any topic easy to find.
NSP cannot sell you the texts directly because you are not yet NSP members. You have at least four options for obtaining the texts: (Listed in order of my guess of increasing cost.)
- We can sell you all three texts for $100 including postage. Specify a quantity for "Textbook" when you register.
- Your patrol can order them for their candidates whether you or or the patrol pays for them
- You can get an NSP buddy to order them for you.
- You can order the text and workbook from the publisher by calling 1-800-832-0034
- You can use the links on this page to order the text and workbook from amazon.com. You can get "like new" books for a substantial discount. Their prices are currently verty high..
Some patrols provide the text and workbooks to candidates. Your patrol can obtain them for you at a reduced price.
If your patrol does not provide you the text and workbook, you should probably order them from Amazon.com using the links below.
You need to have the book in hand by the registration closing date because you must complete reading all or part of the text and doing the workbook prior to the first class meeting date. If you are ordering the text and workbook shortly before the registration closing date, you should pay for expidited delivery