If you're like me and your employer requires you to renew your CPR every couple years, you could do worse than Heart 2 Heart CPR.
The good:
Location! It's on carleton, near parliament, so it's central and very easily ttc-able.
Scheduling! They offer at least a few classes each week, with offerings on different days as well as evenings and weekends.
Registration! Easy peasy. Click a button on the website and you're in. When you arrive you write down your name and indicate which class you want and that's that.
Class selection! They offer both first time and recertification courses for CPR (regular and HCP level), first aid, and probably other stuff that I didn't read about.
The ok:
Price. I paid $60 for my HCP CPR recert. It's not obscene, but it's not great.
The space. It's a walk down from street level to the registration space. There are two classroom spaces - mine was in the lower level and it was fine. Institutional grey carpet, no decoration to speak of. I don't need more, but it wasn't wowing me.
Class size. There were 15 or so folks in my class, which again isn't outrageous, but is enough that there's at least one slow poke holding the rest of the gang up and there's some waiting around while the instructor watches each group perform the required skills.
Length. I have to do this every couple years. It's tedious. Repetitive. Boring. And boring. This class was the first time I've ever had to spend the full four hours in a recert class. Usually we're able to cover the material and still get out early since everyone in the class a) works in health care and b) has done the course before. I know there are requirements for CPR courses, I'm just saying other folks have found ways to work around them.
I'll likely return to Heart 2 Heart for my next recert. The class was long and dull but they're on my streetcar line and the offer classes pretty much anytime I want to take one. That'll do for me. read more