I attended the 10am class on Saturday, August 31st. This "class" was a complete joke and waste of time and money. I was so disgusted by the way this class was led that I left before the test was given, and so would believe a refund is in order.
The "instructor", Steven Lepore, was rude, degrading, unprofessional, and completely ignorant about what he was supposed to be teaching. This was not my first CPR/First Aid course, so I have some previous knowledge on the subjects. However, in a class that was already overflowing with people, he was not a good example to others who had no previous training.
He could not pronounce some basic medical or he said words completely wrong. He repeatedly made comments about how the way the world is now, you can't tell if someone is female doctors i.e. transgendered, or if they've not been through puberty so it's hard to tell if they're an adult or child so you have to figure out which method of CPR to use. He then said how he would only put his mouth on a baby depending on how the parents looked, like if they were drug addicts he wouldn't because the baby probably had diseases... Or how it's harder to do chest compressions on fat people or women with large breasts. And then detailed how he had to resuscitate a 400lb guy whose fat went over his hand. And how Tucson has the shittiest drivers, and people OD in Tucson all the time. Or how Tucson has a Hep-C outbreak. He was completely degrading about Tucson in general.
He and his co-instructor, a young woman who did nothing to discourage or help him, are not suitable to teach a CPR class. Everything he said was contradictory things. He skipped the videos of the doctors from the Sarver Heart Center at the University of Arizona because he said "they used big wordsthat we wouldn't be able to understand" and that "he could barely understand them". The Sarver Heart Center has a long history with CPR techniques. It's the place that came up with the whole Cardiocerebral Resuscitation and they lead the initiative on teaching the chest compressions only CPR to the public. And yes people will actually do that than actual CPR, there were studies on it, Steven Lepore claimed there wasn't. I left before I could hear any more stupidity. My coworkers who stayed, came out of it in disbelief, feeling they needed to take the course again from someone competent. And all claimed that the unprofessionalism continued.
Now, I don't believe anything Mr. Lepore said was with malicious intent, but the manner in which he said it displayed an ignorance your company should be embarrassed to allow to continue.
I will be in to collect my refund in the next business day. read more