I just left my MA clinical and had to go into the bathroom and cry. One of my classmates started making fun of me because I was on leave so some time had passed since I had practice. I was trying to take my time and get it right so I could get marked off as satisfactory. This girl literally started snickering at me and making fun of me under her breath. I went into the bathroom and while I was crying I pulled up your video. I don't know what happened but it gave me a surge of confidence. I walked right back into the lab, took my partner's BP and shut her ignorant comments right down. I'm not doing this for friends or recognition. I'm doing this to give my children a more positive and stable future. Thank you Nurse Sarah.
I'm a CNA been taking pressures for years. Well latley I've had high BP and have been having to take mine. I find it difficult to take mine. Anyways you taught me a new trick today. With placing the stethoscope over on that attery. I was hearing Noises and getting really high readings. I just got 170/100. Was freaking out. I thought no way, and thought no I must be doing this wrong. Your technique first try 122/63!! Was so much clearer. Thanks for the tip.
Thank you for everything you do, Sarah! I admire your passion and simplification of crazy difficult processes. You take hundreds of pages of textbook material and condense it into a short video of important concepts, saving all of us nursing students so much valuable time! And speaking of valuable time, thank you for taking YOURS to help us become the best nurses we can be - like you! Love to you and your family.
Girl you are so amazing. I'm purchasing my stethoscope and goodies Friday and my daughter and I are going to nail this skill before I step a foot into clinicals. I want you to know when I grow up (I'm 48) I want to be like you. Thank you for making these videos and taking your precious time to help make great nurses
Very clear and easy to understand video!! Love it, this is making my 1st week of Nursing school easier to understand!! P.S. The way your husband looks at you while your lecturing is so ADORABLE!! Blessings and Thanks for your videos!!
I'm so glad I came across this video! my professor in A&P II had us check our blood pressure with the cuff, mind you I have never used one prior, I was so lost in class and she didn't give us any instruction on how to properly use one. This video helped me a lot ! Thank You!
I watched this because in the last two years, no two nurses have taken blood pressure the same way. Loose cuffs, tight cuffs, at the elbow crease, above the elbow crease. Consequently, BP numbers at the doctor's office are all over the place.
This is the first video I watched when in NU101. I have always watched your videos and in NU102, you were very resourcesful in the disease process. Im blessed to have you
so glad I found this video, I'm in school to be a medical assistant and due to covid, they have assigned us proctors online for skills check off, the way you explained this went right along with the learning materials. this helped me out a lot.
This update is very important for me! My co worker took his own BP with a wrist unit and said it was 163/110 😱 I told him to go to the hospital or clinic and have it checked again but he didn’t, So I used your video to update me as it’s been around 18 yrs since I took someone’s BP. Thank you and your husband Dan for this video. 👍😎👍
I have to take my blood pressure daily because mine is pretty high (mostly because of stress and anxiety over my current condition) and this was super easy to follow and understand! Thank you!
This is the type of BP machine we used in college. When you listen keenly, the readings are perfect compared to the other machines. Thanks for sharing this llove it.
Not a medical student but I'm a natural sponge. I was always curious how they took my blood pressure at my doctors office. This gives a great explanation for it. Thanks
Excellent video, very clear. And thanks for the extra info with stage one and two hypertension results. I missed this in class. Thank goodness for TH-cam 💕
I've been a nurse for 6 years and still try to avoid manual BP when possible. I never seem to get clear systolic/diastolic numbers. I'll start hearing a weak pulse fade in around 200 and it seemingly never ends, just gets quieter, even after the cuff is all the way to zero.
Same here, whatever I pump the cuff up to that's when I start hearing the pulse beat. And it never stops, it just gets more and more faint I can still hear it all the way down to about 10
Being a life long heat patient, I have had my pressure checked with the 'extra' first technique only once or twice. Most PA's will just slip an electronic cuff on my wrist and read it. I wish all of them did it more accurately.
I got the first number right (systolic) when you were showing the numbers decreasing 😊 I start nursing school in the fall, and I'm definitely gonna be revisting this video 😊
I'm the daughter and niece of nurses. I did taking a blood pressure manually as a demonstration speech in 8th grade. I have also had doctors that hate the blood pressure machines that are used now. When taken manually, there are things a professional can hear.
I’m having an extremely difficult time hearing the systolic on my skills partner and I’ve been practicing for about 2 weeks now. Any tips or things to try? Thanks so much for your awesome videos!
Hey Chloey if you are finding it hard to listen you can always avoid using a stethoscope and palpate instead,,, just try and locate your branchial artery correctly and you will be good to go
@@Caysum21345many stethoscopes are two sided, and they rotate at the metal stem where it attaches to the tubing. Easiest way to tell which side is on is to gently tap on each side and see which one is loud. If that’s not the side you want, then try twisting the head around while holding the metal stem right near the tubing. Hope that helps!
Thank you for the video, the older video was also very good and very clear , also this video with extra information especially with the highlights on the screen, again thanks a lot.
Thanks for the tips, I'm not a nurse but this one is very useful for me since I need to monitor my moms bp regularly. Also subs and binge more of your content later.
Great video, it was good how you mentioned not to occlude the brachial artery with the steth and that you mentioned why you go 30 mmHg above the point where you don't feel the brachial artery pusing anymore. We were taught in PA school to listen to the brachial artery stop pulsing with the steth. Do you think one method is better than the other? I'm guessing it doesn't really matter!
My nursing instructor who teaching me the HHA class didn’t even show me like that. He just just a video I didn’t even understand and expect me to do it my self. I’m nervous because it will be my first time doing it (maybe it’s the fact I wanna do it perfect that bother me too much). Today he’s gonna so me to do it and I came here to watch before class started loll. That’s better
I have to take my blood pressure at home to order birth control online because pharmacies around me around doing them anymore because of covid, thank you so much ♡
This is an excellent video - thorough, to the point, and correct. Question: post-Covid - I find many patients prefer the healthcare professional to be gloved - do you find the same? Presuming good hand hygiene - I don't think it is routinely necessary. (I realize the patient is also your husband - or so I believe.)
I’m taking a nurse aid class and they told us to pump it up to 160. Should I bring it down? Also how long should it take to actually take the blood pressure because sometimes I’m doing it for too long?
Wow.. that was surprisingly simple! Thank you (: What are some things to avoid when purchasing a manual pump? How do you know if they are of good quality vs one of bad quality? Any tips on what to know would be greatly appreciated! thank you(:
I had a nurse tell me she doesn't listen to the sounds to catch the reading. She says she just looks at where the first and last beat is caught on the gauge.. now thats not how i learned, but i was curious to see what yall think of that.
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I am your follower from last 3 years. Thanks for such helpful videos. Your teaching style is easy to understand.
Bravo👍
Good very good dear . i love you
Thanks from India sarma
Hi all the way from South Africa
Does the hand which you put the cuff on matter or you can just put on any arm?
So helpful thank you, this has been driving me nuts
I just left my MA clinical and had to go into the bathroom and cry. One of my classmates started making fun of me because I was on leave so some time had passed since I had practice.
I was trying to take my time and get it right so I could get marked off as satisfactory. This girl literally started snickering at me and making fun of me under her breath.
I went into the bathroom and while I was crying I pulled up your video. I don't know what happened but it gave me a surge of confidence. I walked right back into the lab, took my partner's BP and shut her ignorant comments right down.
I'm not doing this for friends or recognition. I'm doing this to give my children a more positive and stable future.
Thank you Nurse Sarah.
This instruction was WAY better than my first lab day at nursing school. Thank you!
Right! I came here looking for the same reasons!
exactly! she got right to it lol
Exactly 🙋♂️
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TH-cam helps a lot
This guy has the most intense gaze
I'm a CNA been taking pressures for years. Well latley I've had high BP and have been having to take mine. I find it difficult to take mine. Anyways you taught me a new trick today. With placing the stethoscope over on that attery. I was hearing
Noises and getting really high readings. I just got 170/100. Was freaking out. I thought no way, and thought no I must be doing this wrong. Your technique first try 122/63!! Was so much clearer. Thanks for the tip.
Thank you for everything you do, Sarah! I admire your passion and simplification of crazy difficult processes. You take hundreds of pages of textbook material and condense it into a short video of important concepts, saving all of us nursing students so much valuable time! And speaking of valuable time, thank you for taking YOURS to help us become the best nurses we can be - like you! Love to you and your family.
We watched your videos a lot during medical assisting school. Thank you so much for your resources!
Girl you are so amazing. I'm purchasing my stethoscope and goodies Friday and my daughter and I are going to nail this skill before I step a foot into clinicals. I want you to know when I grow up (I'm 48) I want to be like you. Thank you for making these videos and taking your precious time to help make great nurses
I know this is four years later, but I hope your clinicals went well :)
Good job on the patient for keeping his BP low while wear an apron and listening to the entire breakdown of BP procedures.
Very clear and easy to understand video!! Love it, this is making my 1st week of Nursing school easier to understand!! P.S. The way your husband looks at you while your lecturing is so ADORABLE!! Blessings and Thanks for your videos!!
Been trying to learn how to do this for over a month now In college and couldn’t grasp it at all! This helped me so much, thank you
Same this totally helped
Months?!!!😧😧😧
College are so useless the teacher get paid to just chill they don’t teach nothing Thank to Sara nurse She been great help
Dude is falling in love.
I'm so glad I came across this video! my professor in A&P II had us check our blood pressure with the cuff, mind you I have never used one prior, I was so lost in class and she didn't give us any instruction on how to properly use one. This video helped me a lot ! Thank You!
You are certainly a blessing to me as a nursing student. Thank you Nurse Sarah, God bless!
I watched this because in the last two years, no two nurses have taken blood pressure the same way. Loose cuffs, tight cuffs, at the elbow crease, above the elbow crease. Consequently, BP numbers at the doctor's office are all over the place.
This is the first video I watched when in NU101. I have always watched your videos and in NU102, you were very resourcesful in the disease process. Im blessed to have you
so glad I found this video, I'm in school to be a medical assistant and due to covid, they have assigned us proctors online for skills check off, the way you explained this went right along with the learning materials. this helped me out a lot.
This update is very important for me!
My co worker took his own BP with a wrist unit and said it was 163/110 😱
I told him to go to the hospital or clinic and have it checked again but he didn’t, So I used your video to update me as it’s been around 18 yrs since I took someone’s BP. Thank you and your husband Dan for this video.
👍😎👍
Hi Sarah. Thanks for your very informative and strategic videos. I just took my nclex last May 30, 2019 and passed for 75 items. More power!!!
Exactly 💯
I have to take my blood pressure daily because mine is pretty high (mostly because of stress and anxiety over my current condition) and this was super easy to follow and understand! Thank you!
Is it possible to take your own blood pressure without any assistance? Do you do it that way? Does it work ?
This is the type of BP machine we used in college. When you listen keenly, the readings are perfect compared to the other machines. Thanks for sharing this llove it.
Not a medical student but I'm a natural sponge. I was always curious how they took my blood pressure at my doctors office. This gives a great explanation for it. Thanks
Excellent video, very clear. And thanks for the extra info with stage one and two hypertension results. I missed this in class. Thank goodness for TH-cam 💕
This was a better explanation then I received in my EMR class
I missed my skills lab for vitals and this helped me a lot for my EMT class thank you!!!!
That was so easy😭😭❤ School complicates stuff so much! You're a gem!
Taking an EMT-B class right now-very helpful. Thanks
thank you so much for this tutorial. im practicing blood preassure for an exam this week for nursing theory module.
She is a very good nurse and she is very gentle ❤
I've been a nurse for 6 years and still try to avoid manual BP when possible. I never seem to get clear systolic/diastolic numbers. I'll start hearing a weak pulse fade in around 200 and it seemingly never ends, just gets quieter, even after the cuff is all the way to zero.
Do you have Pulsatile Tinnitus? Also you could be hearing your own pulse faintly in your thumb.
Same here, whatever I pump the cuff up to that's when I start hearing the pulse beat. And it never stops, it just gets more and more faint I can still hear it all the way down to about 10
Being a life long heat patient, I have had my pressure checked with the 'extra' first technique only once or twice. Most PA's will just slip an electronic cuff on my wrist and read it. I wish all of them did it more accurately.
Your smile alone can cure my depression..
This was much better than what our teacher told us in lab
I love y’all so much! Y’all are such big helps for me! I’ve made it thru prerequisites.. now time to apply to the program! 🎉❤ wish me luck!
This video was so much better than the tutorial on my job. Thank you 😊
Great job Sarah. I really love this particular skill. I work in LTC, and we mainly use mechanical devices for taking BPs.
I understood you,much clearer than my EMT instructor.Thanks for this lesson.
I got the first number right (systolic) when you were showing the numbers decreasing 😊 I start nursing school in the fall, and I'm definitely gonna be revisting this video 😊
Did someone tell you that I am learning this? Lol thanks for posting
I have a big test tomorrow and this is really going to help, thank you!
I'm the daughter and niece of nurses. I did taking a blood pressure manually as a demonstration speech in 8th grade. I have also had doctors that hate the blood pressure machines that are used now. When taken manually, there are things a professional can hear.
hey thanks for this video! me and my buddies are doing this in PE and this video greatly helped us 😅
She is way better than my lecturer! And she is so beautiful👍
My go to page when I don’t understand in class. Thanks Sarah❤
Thank you so much your videos! Kind of offtopic but I think your stethoscope's so cutee 💗
I’m having an extremely difficult time hearing the systolic on my skills partner and I’ve been practicing for about 2 weeks now. Any tips or things to try? Thanks so much for your awesome videos!
Follow the middle finger line to position it on the artery and make sure it's on.
Hey Chloey if you are finding it hard to listen you can always avoid using a stethoscope and palpate instead,,, just try and locate your branchial artery correctly and you will be good to go
@Mindyuhbusiness how do I check if it’s on or not??
@@Caysum21345many stethoscopes are two sided, and they rotate at the metal stem where it attaches to the tubing. Easiest way to tell which side is on is to gently tap on each side and see which one is loud. If that’s not the side you want, then try twisting the head around while holding the metal stem right near the tubing. Hope that helps!
Nurse sarah, your explaination is as beautiful as you!!!
From Pakistan you are very tallented mam thank you your lectures helps me a lot
This was very detailed I love when explaining give real examples and tricks to use ❤️❤️❤️
why cant every professor be like sara :( these videos are a blessing!!!
Thank you for your tutorial. It was very helpful.
Thank you, nurse! I forgot how to use bp manually and now I'm gonna do it with my grandma hehehe
You are the best, very clear and on point
Thank you for the video, the older video was also very good and very clear , also this video with extra information especially with the highlights on the screen, again thanks a lot.
Thank you, ma. I appreciate this.
Thanks for the tips, I'm not a nurse but this one is very useful for me since I need to monitor my moms bp regularly. Also subs and binge more of your content later.
Great video, it was good how you mentioned not to occlude the brachial artery with the steth and that you mentioned why you go 30 mmHg above the point where you don't feel the brachial artery pusing anymore. We were taught in PA school to listen to the brachial artery stop pulsing with the steth. Do you think one method is better than the other? I'm guessing it doesn't really matter!
THANK YOU SO MUCHHHH, I am going to get graded over this and I finally understood it.
Good explanation. That guy was like I just met this lady in the cafeteria and now I’m in her video.
Thanks so much easy to understand
My nursing instructor who teaching me the HHA class didn’t even show me like that. He just just a video I didn’t even understand and expect me to do it my self. I’m nervous because it will be my first time doing it (maybe it’s the fact I wanna do it perfect that bother me too much). Today he’s gonna so me to do it and I came here to watch before class started loll. That’s better
Very great video and well understood i am studying for my skills exam and i have a hard time with blood pressure . Thank you very much
Currently watching this in the bathroom while I’m in training 😬 (on my break) and I’m about to get checked off
I have to take my blood pressure at home to order birth control online because pharmacies around me around doing them anymore because of covid, thank you so much ♡
Thank you so much...
This really helped
Thank you very much from India west Bengal
Wow thank you better than my skills instructor
Never have I ever seen such a gorgeous nurse ..😍🥰🤩😌
I understands this kind od explanation not to much complecated. Thank you so much mam😊🥰
You are a good teacher. Thanks for thid
Thank you so much for this post
❤ I love her teaching.
Thank you. Informative.
(I’m 59. In all my doctor office visits over the years, I don’t think they’ve ever been this diligent in taking my BP. )
i keep getting that gap on my mother thank you RN Sarah
This is very helpful thank you.
This is an excellent video - thorough, to the point, and correct. Question: post-Covid - I find many patients prefer the healthcare professional to be gloved - do you find the same? Presuming good hand hygiene - I don't think it is routinely necessary. (I realize the patient is also your husband - or so I believe.)
Excellent job Sarah
Thank you! I actually cited this in my reflective piece for my vital signs exam :)
I love all your videos
Thank you! I really forgot how to check the BP manually 😅
I’m taking a nurse aid class and they told us to pump it up to 160. Should I bring it down? Also how long should it take to actually take the blood pressure because sometimes I’m doing it for too long?
160 is average. If somebody has a higher baseline though, you'd pump it up higher.
Thank you for sharing this info
Her remarkable beauty captivated the him and he is starring at her with love and pure heart❤❤😂😂
I wish I had this training when checking the nellcors as a biomed tech specialist years ago
Thank you so much! As a university student, You are a life-saver!
Thanks this was very informative 👍
Can also palpate the radial artery to get your estimate if systolic. Most heart institutions teach it they way
Helped a lot! Thank you!
So we’re just gonna ignore the fact that Sarah is glowing in the video. She looks so young and fresh
I know right, I feel like that guy is just admiring her beauty
It’s all those years of nursing that’ll do that to you
Thanks for sharing. I watch your videos all the time. :)
Future EMT here, this is a great reference.
Thank you Nurse.
Thank you Sarah! This is very helpful.❤️
Thank you. This video explains well and I understand
Very useful informations, N in details. Good job.
Wow.. that was surprisingly simple! Thank you (: What are some things to avoid when purchasing a manual pump? How do you know if they are of good quality vs one of bad quality? Any tips on what to know would be greatly appreciated! thank you(:
What are some things to keep in mind besides brands and cuff length
Excellently done...
I had a nurse tell me she doesn't listen to the sounds to catch the reading. She says she just looks at where the first and last beat is caught on the gauge.. now thats not how i learned, but i was curious to see what yall think of that.
Interesting. I thought the bell end was just for kids. Thank you for talking about it
He’s the silent and healthy type. 😊