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Your caregiving tasks may include measuring vital signs such as blood pressure, body temperature, pulse or pain. Knowing how to measure vital signs accurately is important.
Once you've learned the proper skills and techniques, you can monitor your family member's condition on an ongoing basis and provide updates as needed to your physician.
Topics include:
- Use of a flow sheet
- Methods for taking body temperature
- Types of thermometers
- Methods for taking the pulse
- Use of a stethoscope
- Measuring respiration
- Taking blood pressure
- Pain scales
- Measuring weight
Program comes with support materials, which include outline, learning objectives, key points and definitions, test and answer key.
Total Course Time: 60 minutes (includes 35 minute DVD, support materials, review and testing)
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