Sep. 9, 2008

Today in clinic my goal was to gain a better understanding of how to take blood pressure and to practice taking all vital signs. My plan is to listen and watch the instructor and ask questions where I don't understand something and to practice on my peers. I arrived to clinic and Professor Costley walked us through the PE and demonstrated how to take vitals. Then we split up and practiced on all the other students in my pod. I felt that at first it was difficult and confusing but by the end I was starting to get the hang of it. It wasn't hard to find or count the pulse. I kept forgetting to start watching/listening to respiration right away and it was pretty difficult to hear the BP. I still need more practice. Next time I will review and see if we have time to practice some more and possibly on people that I haven't practiced on all ready.l