LEARN HEART SOUNDS IN 20 MINUTES!!!

Hey ya’ll. I have found some great resources for learning heart sounds. I am so excited that I found these. Click HERE to go to another website to listen to a WIDE variety of different heart sounds and get some other great information about heart and lung sounds. I wish I had known about this site a long time ago.

This Emergency Medicine Resident does an awsome job explaining the heart sounds in an easy to understand manner. I was so impressed with his entire demeanor. It is well worth spending 20 minutes to watch the video. It will help tremendously once you start your clinical rotations.

Lung Sounds – Rales, Rhonchi, Wheezes

I found a site that explains breath sounds clearly and in an easy to understand format. There are also several sound clips of various lung sounds. Click HERE to go to the site.

This is a great video with sound clips of what each of these lung sounds sound like.

Happy Days “Pumps Your Blood” Song

Great Video to learn the blood flow.

 

Head to Toe Physical Assessment ~ Part 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

I am posting several videos in this post. All the videos are our skills validation for the Head to Toe Physical Assessment. The videos are great, but the sound quality is not all that good. Nonetheless, I need to be able to refer back to these on a continual basis. I want to be able to access all of them in one place.

Head to Toe Nursing Student Assessment

This video is one that shows a nursing student doing a head to toe physical assessment on a simulator. She does an excellent job.

Head to Toe Nursing Assessment By Instructor

The video below is of an instructor doing a health assessment. She does an excellent job, and gives a lot of tips regarding what she is doing at the same time. It is somewhat lengthy, but it is well worth it to watch.

Babinski Reflex

If you are like me, you have never actually seen a positive and negative Babinski Reflex on an adult. This video shows a positive reflex on one foot and then a negative reflex on the other foot in the same adult. So, what does a positive Babinski test indicate in an adult? When the Babinski reflex is present in a child older than 2 years or in an adult, it is often a sign of a brain or nervous system disorder. Disorders may include: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig disease), Brain tumor or injury, Meningitis, Multiple sclerosis, Spinal cord injury, defect, or tumor, Stroke.

Cranial Nerves Song

Here is a great way to remember the cranial nerves and what they do.