WRCTC Additional Courses Tactical Medicine

COMING SOON: Wilderness Medicine

This course equips law enforcement officers with the essential medical knowledge and skills required to provide life-saving care in austere, remote, or prolonged field environments where traditional EMS support may be delayed or unavailable. Built on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines and adapted for the law enforcement mission set, the training emphasizes practical interventions that sustain life until evacuation or higher-level care becomes available.

Enhanced Tactical Medicine

 This course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders how to treat and manage trauma patients in a civilian tactical environment. Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on skills training, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions.

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement

Performance Nutrition for Law Enforcement (PNLE)

Course Description: PNLE will take you on a journey of education and self-discovery. The course will explain the basics of human nutrition, nutritional challenges most law enforcement officers face, the importance of nutrient dense food choices, mental reframing techniques, and ultimately, how to build an individualized and executable performance nutrition plan. LEO’s will walk away with a new sense of confidence and ownership over their nutritional choices.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 day / 4 Hours

Prevention Ethics

Course Description: The Prevention Ethics Course identifies the standards of conduct for relating to service recipients, sets professional goals with prevention ethics standards, and describes methods of decision making for ethical situations. Participants will be instructed on the potential for moral and ethical dilemmas they may face when working in the prevention field and how to address them based on current knowledge and practice in the field. This training is designed to assist practitioners in reducing the likelihood of substance misuse and promoting well-being among individuals, families, workplaces, schools, and communities.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Resilience Training

Course Description: Resilience Training (RT) teaches students 14 distinct skills that allow them to develop themselves and others in the six RT competency areas: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. With these skills, students develop the ability to understand their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of others. Students master skills to to use during high and low stress situations to strengthen relationships through communication strategies and learn how to praise effectively, respond constructively to positive experiences, as well as discuss and manage stressful activating events effectively.

Prerequisites: Value in Action Character Strength Survey

Course Length: 3 Days/ 24 Hours

Resilience Training Workshop

Course Description:The Resilience Training Workshops are a modular version of our larger three-day Resilience Training. Workshops can include any combination of the 14 Resilience skills that increase the use of six Competencies that have been found to increase overall resilience, performance, and optimal functioning of an individual. The Competencies are Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. Upon course completion, students will have tools that will increase their abilities to handle stressful situations efficiently, perform optimally and communicate more effectively. Contact the WRCTC to coordinate the length and number of skills desired to learn. The 14 skills are:

 

1. Goal Setting

8. Put It In Perspective

2. Hunt the Good Stuff

9. Mental Games

3. ATC Model         

10. Real-Time Resilience

4. Energy Management

11. Identify Character Strengths in Self and Others

5. Avoid Thinking Traps

12. Character Strengths: Challenges and Leadership

6. Detect Icebergs  

13. Assertive Communication

7. Problem Solving

14. Effective Praise and Active Constructive Responding

 

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day/ 2 Hours

SAPST

SAPST is broken down into four sessions:

  • Session 1 - Setting the Foundation: From Theory to Practice – The theories that lead to the evidence-based curriculums of today
  • Session 2 - SPF: Assessment and Assessing Capacity
  • Session 3 - SPF: Building Capacity, Cultural Proficiency, and Planning
  • Session 4 - SPF: Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability / Bringing It All Together

Tactical Medicine (Basic Tactical Medicine)

This course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders how to treat and manage trauma patients in a civilian tactical environment. Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on evaluations, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions.

Tactical Medicine Hemorrhage Control (HEMCON)

This course is designed to provide Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders with tools and techniques when caring for patients in tactical environments. Tactical Medicine Hemorrhage Control (HEMCON) for Law Enforcement emphasizes basic interventions for hemorrhage control used to treat one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in tactical environments (extremity and junctional exsanguination).