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CNA Board of Nursing Skill: Measures and Records Manual Blood Pressure

Taking your CNA Skills Exam soon? Here’s how Skill 23: Measures and Records Manual Blood Pressure is performed: 1. Explains procedure, speaking clearly, slowly, and directly, maintaining face-to-face contact whenever possible. 2. Before using stethoscope, wipes bell/diaphragm and earpieces of stethoscope with alcohol. 3. Client’s arm is positioned with palm up and upper arm is exposed. 4. Feels for brachial artery on inner aspect of arm, at bend of elbow. 5. Places blood pressure cuff snugly on client’s upper arm, with sensor/arrow over brachial artery site. 6. Earpieces of stethoscope are in ears and bell/diaphragm is over brachial artery site. 7. Candidate inflates cuff between 160mm Hg to 180 mm Hg. If beat heard immediately upon cuff deflation, completely deflate cuff. Re-inflate cuff to no more than 200 mm Hg. 8. Deflates cuff slowly and notes the first sound (systolic reading), and last sound (diastolic reading) (If rounding needed, measurements are rounded UP to the nearest 2 mm of mercury). 9. Removes cuff. 10. Signaling device is within reach. 11. Before recording, washes hands. 12. After obtaining reading using BP cuff and stethoscope, records both systolic and diastolic pressures each within plus or minus 8 mm of evaluator’s reading. If you found this video helpful, like, comment, and subscribe to our channel for more CNA skills breakdowns and exam prep. 👉 Visit https://fam1stofva.com or call (804)416-6831 today to learn how you can sign up for our CNA, PCA, CMA, BLS, and CPR classes. Train smart. Test confident. Pass the first time!