Reading and Recording Vital Signs

Description:

This content discusses the importance of patients’vital signs and describes procedures for determining temperature, blood pressure, and pulse and respiration rates. It also discusses special considerations when taking vital signs of young and elderly patients.

Objectives:

RECALL reasons vital signs are important.

RECALL proper techniques and procedures for determining pulse and respiration.

RECALL proper techniques and procedures for determining blood pressure.

RECALL proper techniques and procedures for taking temperature.

RECALL special considerations when dealing with young or elderly patients.