SKILL 3: Pulse

STEP 1:

What do you do first?

Inform the patient that you are here to check their pulse

STEP 2:

After getting patient’s consent to check their pulse..

PUT A CLOCK ON THE PATIENT’S CHEST

STEP 3:

How do you assess the patient’s pulse?

Put two fingers on the front of their wrist

WHEN TAKING PULSE, whatever number you have started on, where the second hand is, you would keep counting the pulse in your head, until the hand comes back to that number, then you stop counting, wash your hands, and record

STEP 4 (FINAL STEPS):

Once the clock’s second hand reaches the original number it is on, you have the pulse number in your head, what do you do?

• KEEP THE NUMBER IN YOUR HEAD AND TAKE CLOCK, AND TUCK THE PATIENT IN

• Put clock away

• TELL EXAMINER THAT YOU ARE GOING TO WASH UR HANDS

• ENTER THE PULSE INTO RECORDING SHEET then hand it to the examiner