ENCORE! #88: Vital Skills for Vital Signs

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Every other week I'm republishing one of my most popular or impactful episodes and adding an update, new insight, or context that will help you benefit from it even more. This week I'm highlighting Episode 88, which provides some key tips for taking vital signs like a pro. This is a basic but very important nursing skill and I’ve included some additional tips about taking blood pressures accurately. Enjoy! Full Transcript – Read the article and view references FREE CLASS – If all you’ve heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES…you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Clinical Success Pack – One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. Study Sesh – Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp – Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight A Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.4	Hello and welcome to an encore episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast where I pull an
1:35.6	episode from the archive that I want you to see because it's an oldie but a goodie.
1:40.9	So I'm re-releasing this episode. It's from way back. So way, way, way back.
1:48.1	Episode 88. But it is such a vital skill that new students often struggle with. And you know,
1:55.0	I hate to see you struggle. So I'm making sure that you see this one. So this episode shares some pro tips for taking and
2:03.7	interpreting vital signs. And an area that I would like to emphasize in this re-release is that
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