A CPR Review course is a class you can choose to take if you have taken the course within a year (give or take a few months) of your current cards expiration date. It's benefits are that it is shorter than a regular CPR class. It's downsides are that you won't be coddled by the teacher.
5 women, 1 fat, balding man. He came in grumpy and made a snarky comment like, "What? No men take this class?"
Someone mentioned at the beginning about having their old CPR card with them. I said "yes, we need your old card. If you don't have your old card with you at the moment swing by sometime tomorrow with it and you can pick up your new one then." We need the old card because otherwise there is no proof that they've taken CPR within the last year. He didn't have his.
We introduced ourselves and why we were there. He's a drug and alcohol counselor. Even then I was thinking "seriously? You HELP people?... Seriously?"
For the first hour every other time I looked at him he was texting.
During the check for a conscious adult he couldn't seem to grasp that the teacher needs to SEE you do the skills.
He questioned the need for gloves mentioning that he never carries any with him, and that it would take to much time to put them on. And maybe the victim wouldn't survive in the GINORMOUS amount of time it takes to put them on.
I have a pair of gloves and a breathing barrier that I keep in my purse at all times. Been there for a year now. Haven't had to use them yet, might never have to but they're there just in case. Oh and by the way if you don't use proper safety precautions when touching bodily fluids you might catch a potentially deadly disease. Also if you don't use proper safety precautions you're not covered by the Good Samaritan Laws which mean the victim you just worked so had to save can sue you because A) they caught some sort of virus/germ from you, B) They just feel like it.
That's reason enough for me, but SOME people don't agree.
During CPR his head was facing the wrong way when checking for breathing (it is supposed to face the chest so you can see if it is rising and falling). I went over and spoke quietly so as not to distract my other students, and quickly so he'd have a chance to do this skill before the next segment began. Instead of doing what I said he sat up and looked at me, which I admit I hate so I said "Please continue." I wasn't particularly nice when I said it, but I wasn't mean either, and I did say 'Please'.
He told me, "you don't have to be rude." By that time the next set of skills had begun. I told him to continue and sat back to run over in my head the many times he had been rude that evening.
At the beginning of the test he asked "Do we get to look through the book?" I ask you people, do open book tests really teach you anything? No, you do not get to look through the book. "Well we could in my other classes." I told him that was wrong, and the teachers shouldn't have let him do that but I'm sure he felt this was a personal affront to him.
When he was finished he asked for a survey to review the class. I told him there might be one online, but he wanted one right now. Not being very familiar with the Longview office I asked Celia who volunteers there twice a week and as luck would have it was taking my class at that very moment. She said no and he left. We talked for a little bit, we both knew he was going to complain, and she said she'd vouch for me.
And that was my day.
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