How to Take a Manual Blood Pressure

We are blessed as nurses to have machines that take constant blood pressure for us. It makes our job easier, and gives us more time to concentrate on other patient needs. However, equipment does fail and you need to get a manual blood pressure. A manual blood pressure is sometime more accurate than an automatic one.

I have made a video on how to take a blood pressure manually. In the video, I talk about the steps on how to take a blood pressure with a manual cuff, how to use the manual cuff, and demonstrate the clinical skills on how to take a blood pressure on a patient.