Yes, it is a deal breaker for me. CPR and first aid training are among the minimum job requirements for a caregiver.

I would not pay for the training unless the certification expired during her employment with us because I would not interview candidates who were not already certified.

It's a deal breaker in the sense that she has to have it to work for us, but I will gladly pay for the right candidate to be trained properly. DS' current nanny's certification expired a couple weeks from her start date and I had a colleague come over during a day I randomly had off and she and nanny did a review course and then nanny went home.

It's true that taking a course and doing it for real are very different. I've done CPR many times in my job and that first time i wasn't nearly as good as I am now. However, in the off chance nanny needs to perform the Heimlich or CPR, I'd much rather her go off on what she's been trained in during certification vs trying to do what the 911 operator is telling her through the phone.

I think pretty important. You practice the techniques in class over and over. The idea is not to become an expert but to get the basics down enough so you can perform them in an emergency situation. I also think it shows commitment to have the class completed rather than wait for someone to ask you to take it.

I always say I want the certification in the ad, but that I will pay for the nanny to attend the class. I will not pay for her time to do so, though.

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Anonymous wrote:I give no weight to CPR training. If they have done actual CPR on someone in an emergency situation then that is worth something, otherwise you having had a class tells me nothing about you actually being useful during an emergency.

I've saved lives BECAUSE of what I learned in a class. How does one perform CPR if one has never actually learned how to do CPR?
I really hope your children never have a need for CPR because your nanny will have no clue what to do.

I think or at least I hope what this poster meant was she gives no extra points for CPR training unless they have performed in an emergency.
I would hope they see the value in training and would have is it as a requirement.

MB here. Not a deal breaker for me - it would be quite easy, affordable, and smart of me to simply send a nanny I was hiring to a CPR class if he/she wasn't certified.

I would want some level of training (even though it is highly theoretical until god forbid it's tested) but I wouldn't not hire someone I thought was great.

If the person I was hiring REFUSED to get trained, that would be a deal breaker, but providing the training I wanted I would see as a perfectly appropriate thing for an employer to do.

Anonymous wrote:I give no weight to CPR training. If they have done actual CPR on someone in an emergency situation then that is worth something, otherwise you having had a class tells me nothing about you actually being useful during an emergency.

This makes no sense! How the heck is someone supposed to do CPR if they haven't taken a class to learn how? You can do more harm than good if you don't know what you are doing.

Anonymous wrote:I give no weight to CPR training. If they have done actual CPR on someone in an emergency situation then that is worth something, otherwise you having had a class tells me nothing about you actually being useful during an emergency.

I've saved lives BECAUSE of what I learned in a class. How does one perform CPR if one has never actually learned how to do CPR?
I really hope your children never have a need for CPR because your nanny will have no clue what to do.

For some families it is
If you are going to be caring for infants I believe it is one of the minimum requirements.
It is relatively inexpensive many places offer it for free and some employers pay for it.
Better to have it in your arsenal and know what to do and not need it then be totally clueless should the situation arise.

I give no weight to CPR training. If they have done actual CPR on someone in an emergency situation then that is worth something, otherwise you having had a class tells me nothing about you actually being useful during an emergency.

Is the Infant CPR Certification a deal breaker for families?