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Cpr class gone wrong....
ok we had our junior meeting tonight and we were getting our certification in adult cpr. We got instructors from the red cross to teach the class. Well the first thing we learned was how to care for a conscious choking victim who's not breathing. Our president of the juniors (head advisers son) who is a a larger guy and his partner asked what to do to care for a person of his size since his partner could not get his arms around him in the correct technique.
Well one of the instructors pulled our president out as an example and said "Now when dealing with a pregnant woman or a huge guy... like this one" everyones mouth fell open and we just stared at our adviser like what do we do now. Our station has a strict policy, you do NOT under any cirstumstance make a comment about another persons size. When we ordered sweatshirts our adviser said if we made a remark about the size of another member we were off the juniors period.
Our adviser told the guy to not come back for the child/infant cpr class next week. He did not apologize. Being in the more to love category as far as weight is concerned i was highly offended by those remarks and i could tell they got to our president.
Another thing that got me was when he demonstrated the technique he made grunting noises when putting his arms around our president and actually did an abdominal thrust! He had just finished telling us to NOT do that.
I lost all respect for the instructor, however i gained more respect for our president in the adivsers because i could tell that both wanted to punch his face in, they restrained themselves though.
Well one of the instructors pulled our president out as an example and said "Now when dealing with a pregnant woman or a huge guy... like this one" everyones mouth fell open and we just stared at our adviser like what do we do now. Our station has a strict policy, you do NOT under any cirstumstance make a comment about another persons size. When we ordered sweatshirts our adviser said if we made a remark about the size of another member we were off the juniors period.
Our adviser told the guy to not come back for the child/infant cpr class next week. He did not apologize. Being in the more to love category as far as weight is concerned i was highly offended by those remarks and i could tell they got to our president.
Another thing that got me was when he demonstrated the technique he made grunting noises when putting his arms around our president and actually did an abdominal thrust! He had just finished telling us to NOT do that.
I lost all respect for the instructor, however i gained more respect for our president in the adivsers because i could tell that both wanted to punch his face in, they restrained themselves though.
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Comment by Greg Ramsdell on January 16, 2009 at 10:39am
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Was the instructor aware of these PC policies? It's understandable that if it's something relatively new that your prior training will take over until you are acclimated to the changes, especially if it's the first time or only time. Did you learn how to do compressions correctly in 5 minutes? And mimic that exactly an hour later? In most cases, no. That's why we continually train. Repetition of new ideas and changes are important in learning, anything. Just a little life lesson about patience and forgiveness.
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Comment by Fire Chick on January 16, 2009 at 12:36am
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that was wrong that he did that...i would def be talkin to his boss.... he can not keep going around and doing that... and if he is volunteering to do it he need to quit..
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Comment by Joe Stoltz on January 15, 2009 at 10:07pm
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I think it's admirable that your junior program has some fairly stiff rules about conduct, like NOT calling attention to peoples' sizes and all that. Seems to me that these rules were made to keep the junior members in check; I guess I'm shocked that the instructor was held to the same standards.
I am sure that he meant nothing in the way of discrimination when he said "huge guy... like this one." It seems to me to be a bit of an overreaction on the advisers' part. Maybe a bad choice of words; was your president offended?
Did anyone pay attention to what you DO have to do on a large person? I hope so, for it appears that you will have to wait a while longer to become CPR certified. Hope you don't run into a situation where you need it before then.
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