Category Archives: Wildlife Rehabilitation Courses

Volunteer Courses, Wildlife Rehabilitation Courses

Wildlife Capture and Transport – All States

For those seeking training in the capture and transport of wildlife, this eight-hour course will help you learn these skills safely.

This entertaining and enlightening course covers the basics of wildlife capture in the field including legal issues, safety, equipment, recognizing true emergencies, proper capture and handling techniques, public relations and education.

A written exam will be given at the end of class. A passing score is 80% .

Contents:

Introduction
Pennsylvania Laws and Regulations
Preparation
Initial Public Contact
Situational Planning
Adult Emergencies
Understanding Rabies
Baby Wildlife Emergencies
Common Baby Mammal Calls
Common Baby Bird Calls
Handling Raptors
Handling Non-Raptors
Handling Mammals
Capture
Entrapment
First Aid
Transport

A certificate for 8 hours will be awarded on completion of the course.

Each student needs to sign the Terms of Service Agreement prior to each course

ENROLLMENT

Enrollment Fee = $49.99

To enroll in any course you must first create a student account at our course gateway. You may then enroll in the course(s) of your choice.

Payment is made at time of course selection.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Courses

Medical Math for the Wildlife Rehabilitator

 

FORGET MEMORIZING COMPLICATED FORMULAS

Designed by veteran wildlife rehabilitator, Peggy Hentz, this medical math course takes you from the very simple to the complex in an understandable and easy to follow structured learning experience. 

The interactive problems will have you calculating in no time.

In wildlife rehabilitation, basic math calculations are needed when determining drug dosages, fluid therapy and feeding amounts.

In addition to being able to formulate and solve mathematical problems, the wildlife rehabilitator needs to be proficient in the use of several instruments of measure such as the weight scale and syringes.

An understanding of the metric system and the ability to covert to and from the US customary units is essential to proficiency in medical math.

  

 

During this course, we will cover all of the necessary skills to calculate accurate drug dosing and fluid therapy for animals. The course is broken down into 5 sections:

  • Comparative (Ratio) Math – the basis of proficient calculations
  • Drug dosage calculations
  • Understanding the metric system
  • Tools of the trade
  • Fluid Therapy

INCLUDES 28 PAGE STUDY BOOK

Course Information:

This self-paced, non-accredited course will prepare the wildlife rehabilitator to calculate various drug dosages as well as administer correct fluid therapy for dehydrated animals.

  • Ratio Mathematics
  • Mastering Drug Dosing
  • Metrics Made Easy for the Wildlife Rehabilitator
  • The Metric Conversion
  • Temperature conversion
  • Reading Syringes
  • Insulin Syringes
  • Needle Gauges
  • Understanding and Interpreting Drug Labeling
  • Diluting Medications
  • Reading Prescriptions
  • Scales
  • Formulary
  • Percentages
  • Stomach Capacity
  • Daily Fluid Requirements
  • Fluid Replacement Calculations
  • Step by Step Re-hydration
  • Finding the Whole of a Percentage (Normal Body Weight)
  • Three Day Re-hydration Protocol

A certificate will be awarded on completion of the course for six training hours.

 

ENROLLMENT

Enrollment Fee = $59.99

To enroll in any course you must first create a student account at our course gateway. You may then enroll in the course(s) of your choice.

Payment is made at the time of course selection.

 

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Volunteer Courses, Wildlife Rehabilitation Courses

Threatened & Endangered Certification for PA Wildlife Rehabilitators

Overview:

Pennsylvania Game Commission permits for wildlife rehabilitators include two additional authorizations for certain classes of animals: rabies vector species (RVS) and threatened and endangered (T&E) species.

This class is intended to deliver the knowledge necessary for a general wildlife rehabilitation permittee to be authorized to receive, treat and rehabilitate threatened and endangered species in Pennsylvania. Upon successful completion, a general permit wildlife rehabilitator can apply for T&E certification to be added to their permit class.

Objective:

Since general class rehabilitators already possess basic skills in stabilization, medical care, diet, rehabilitation, and release of distressed wildlife, this program is geared to understanding those aspects directly associated with receiving animals considered of special interest and listed as threatened and endangered in the Commonwealth.

Any rehabilitator can receive all wildlife species (even those outside of their permit class (mammal, non-raptor, raptor)). It is prudent for all rehabilitators seeking T/E authorization to be able to identify and give emergency care to all special listed species, even those outside of their permit class, so all species are covered in this course.

The information presented is also valuable to novice rehabilitator permittees, sub-permittees, capture and transport permittees, and volunteers.

INCLUDES 43 PAGE QUICK GUIDE

A certificate will be awarded on completion of the course for six training hours.

 

ENROLLMENT

Enrollment Fee = $59.99

To enroll in any course you must first create a student account at our course gateway. You may then enroll in the course(s) of your choice.

Payment is made at the time of course selection.

 

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Red Creek Wildlife Center “Series Students” may enroll for free by LOGGING INTO THEIR ACCOUNT HERE.

Volunteer Courses, Wildlife Rehabilitation Courses

Telephone Skills – Handling Wildlife Emergency Calls

The information and emergency phone line 
is THE most important step in the wildlife rehabilitation process. 

When a person calls a wildlife center with an injured, orphaned, or sick wild animal, the ensuing conversation may be THE MOST IMPORTANT conversation in that animal’s life.

The decisions made by the finder will have an immense impact on its future.

In wildlife rehabilitation, much emphasis is placed on techniques, diet, and housing (and rightfully so), BUT having the right information during THE BEGINNING of the process is a CRITICAL STEP in the rehabilitation of that animal.

IT IS THAT IMPORTANT!

The volunteer who answers the phone is an important link between the wildlife center, the finder, and the animal. For the organization: you are THE representative that will leave a lasting first impression on the person calling. To the finder, you are their salvation from a very emotional situation.

For the animal, YOU are their lifeline to any chance of living a natural life.

Course Information:

This self-paced, non-accredited course will prepare the wildlife rehabilitation volunteer to answer emergency calls pertaining to injured, orphaned, and foundling wild animals.

This course includes:

  • Identifying Wildlife over the phone
  • Wildlife Education and Identification Resources
  • Wildlife Emergencies – Adult Animals
  • Abnormal Behavior / Rabies
  • Wildlife Emergencies – Baby Animals
  • Entrapment
  • Safety
  • Dealing with the Public
  • Verbal Judo and Personality Types
  • Wildlife Tips

 

A certificate will be awarded on completion of the course
for six training hours.

ENROLLMENT

Enrollment Fee = $29.99

To enroll in any course you must first create a student account at our course gateway. You may then enroll in the course(s) of your choice.

Payment is made at the time of course selection.

 

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