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    Competency Checklist For Blood Pressure

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    This document provides a competency checklist for taking blood pressure that includes general guidelines, safety procedures, and step-by-step instructions for taking a blood pressure manually using auscultation or palpation as well as electronically. It also addresses documentation, follow up, and parameters for reporting urgent blood pressure findings and who to report them to. The checklist is to be used to assess an individual's ability to independently perform or require assistance to properly take a blood pressure reading.

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    Competency Checklist For Blood Pressure

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    This document provides a competency checklist for taking blood pressure that includes general guidelines, safety procedures, and step-by-step instructions for taking a blood pressure manually using auscultation or palpation as well as electronically. It also addresses documentation, follow up, and parameters for reporting urgent blood pressure findings and who to report them to. The checklist is to be used to assess an individual's ability to independently perform or require assistance to properly take a blood pressure reading.

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    This document provides a competency checklist for taking blood pressure that includes general guidelines, safety procedures, and step-by-step instructions for taking a blood pressure manually using auscultation or palpation as well as electronically. It also addresses documentation, follow up, and parameters for reporting urgent blood pressure findings and who to report them to. The checklist is to be used to assess an individual's ability to independently perform or require assistance to properly take a blood pressure reading.

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    Competency Checklist For Blood Pressure

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    Delphy Varghese
    This document provides a competency checklist for taking blood pressure that includes general guidelines, safety procedures, and step-by-step instructions for taking a blood pressure manually using auscultation or palpation as well as electronically. It also addresses documentation, follow up, and parameters for reporting urgent blood pressure findings and who to report them to. The checklist is to be used to assess an individual's ability to independently perform or require assistance to properly take a blood pressure reading.

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    Competency Checklist for Blood Pressure

    Name _________________________________________________________________ Date ____________________________


    Instructor ______________________________________________________________

    Blood Pressure Able to


    Perform
    Able to
    Perform with
    Unable to
    Perform
    Initials
    and Date
    Assistance
    General Guidelines for Vital Signs
    1. Check record for baseline and factors (age, illness, medications, etc.)
    influencing vital signs.
    2. Gather equipment, including paper and pen, for recording vital signs.
    Wash hands.
    3. Prepare participant by telling them what you will be doing.
    4. Check the accuracy of participant’s name and birthdate per
    identification policy before starting the procedure

    Cuff Size
    1. Use the correct cuff size of (small, medium, large, and extra large)

    Safety
    1. Do not take a blood pressure (BP) on an injured or painful extremity or
    one where there is an intravenous line (IV). Do not take Blood
    Pressure on an extremity if the particpant directs you not to -due to
    medical reasons.

    Blood Pressure, Auscultation or Palpation


    Procedure
    1. Steps 1–4 of General Guidelines.
    Comments:

    2. Cleanse ear pieces and bell/diaphragm of stethoscope with an alcohol


    wipe.
    Comments:

    3. Position Adult
    a. Arm: Sitting or recumbent position with forearm supinated and
    slightly flexed and supported at heart level.

    Comments:

    4. Remove clothing as necessary to expose extremity.


    Comments:

    5. Place correct size cuff around the extremity with the center of the cuff
    over the artery.
    a. Arm: Cuff should be placed around upper arm with the lower edge
    about 3 cm above the antecubital fossa.

    Comments:
    Blood Pressure Able to
    Perform
    Able to
    Perform with
    Unable to
    Perform
    Initials
    and Date
    Assistance
    6. Locate the artery by palpation.
    Comments:

    7. Palpate a pulse distal to the cuff, e.g., brachial or radial. Close air valve
    and rapidly inflate cuff to 30 mm Hg above where pulse no longer felt
    or above expected systolic blood pressure.
    Comments:

    8. Place stethoscope gently over artery.


    NOTE: To obtain a blood pressure reading by palpation, keep fingers on a
    distal pulse.
    Comments:

    9. Open the valve and slowly release the air, permitting the pressure to
    drop 2–3 mm Hg per heart beat while auscultating for BP sounds or
    palpating for a pulse.
    NOTE: Do not reinflate cuff without letting cuff totally deflate.
    Comments:

    10. Obtain a blood pressure reading.


    a. Auscultation.
    1. Systolic pressure: The pressure at which you first hear sounds.
    2. Diastolic pressure: The pressure when sounds become
    inaudible is the diastolic pressure

    Comments:

    11. Do not leave the cuff inflated for a prolonged period.


    Comments:

    12. Deflate the cuff rapidly and completely and remove from the arm.
    Comments:

    13. Wait 2 minutes before taking another blood pressure.


    Comments:

    Blood Pressure, Electronic


    Procedure
    1. Steps 1–4 of General Guidelines.
    Comments:

    2. Set up machine according to instructions:


    Blood Pressure Able to
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    and Date
    Assistance
    a. Plug in monitor/machine.
    b. Connect dual air hose to back of monitor.
    c. Connect correct size cuff by screwing the pressure cuff’s tubing
    into the other end of the air hose.
    Comments:

    3. Place cuff. (See step 5 of Blood Pressure, Auscultation or Palpation.)


    Comments:

    4. Turn machine on and follow manufacturer’s instructions.


    Comments:

    5. Obtain reading.
    Comments:

    6. Remove cuff.
    Comments:

    Documentation/Follow up
    1. Blood pressure reading.
    2. Method used.
    3. Site.
    4. Size of cuff.
    5. What would be the parameters to report in an urgent fashion?
    6. Who should you report the urgent findings to?

    Comments:

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