Vital Signs
Individual Titles:
- Temperature
- Pulse
- Respiration
- Blood Pressure
Produced by Fitne. CD series released 1997. Online series released 2005.
Objectives
- Identify the factors that influence vital signs.
- Explain variations in vital signs and their significance.
- Describe the equipment commonly used to measure vital signs.
- Assess vital signs in a skills laboratory or clinical setting with assistance.
Policies
Fitne is pleased to extend preview privileges to all institutions interested in purchasing our multimedia software. See our policies for previews or fill out a preview request form.
Availability
Institutional and individual subscriptions of this series are available. Additionally, this series can be purchased on CD-ROM.
Furthermore, we are introducing Student Subscriptions for individual student use.
Description
In the healthcare environment it is essential that many individuals know how to accurately perform a basic assessment of vital signs. Vital Signs is designed to help learners master the skills and knowledge necessary to complete temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure assessments.
This multimedia program stresses the development of psychomotor as well as cognitive skills. It includes basic information about the body systems involved, including normal readings, variations from normal, methods used to assess each vital sign, and detailed, step-by-step descriptions explaining how to perform the assessment techniques. Each vital sign is divided into four sections: basics, variations, measurement, and assessment.
Vital Signs includes descriptions of sites where vital signs can be assessed; explanations of variations in vital signs, including rate, rhythm, volume and sound disturbances; comparisons of various devices used to assess vital signs, including thermometers, stethoscopes, and sphygmomanometers; demonstration of oral, rectal, axillary and tympanic temperature readings; demonstrations of apical and radial pulse measurement; visualization and auscultation of respiration; mercury and aneroid manometer assessment of blood pressure; and practice in assessing each vital sign, including reading thermometers, counting apical and radial pulses, counting respirations and listening to blood pressures measured on mercury and aneroid manometers. Opportunities for practice, summaries, and quizzes are also included.
Purchase
This series is available for purchase in multiple formats.
Subscriptions to our VLRC
| Users | Duration | Code | Price | Purchase | |
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| Vital Signs Series | 500 | 1 year | VSS-V-1 | $400.00 |
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| Vital Signs Series | 500 | 2 years | VSS-V-2 | $700.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Temperature | 1 | 90 days | VST-V-90 | $25.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Pulse | 1 | 90 days | VSP-V-90 | $25.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Respiration | 1 | 90 days | VSR-V-90 | $25.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Blood Pressure | 1 | 90 days | VSB-V-90 | $25.00 |
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Subscription Compatibility
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CD-ROM
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| Vital Signs Series: Network Version | VSS-NET | $700.00 |
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| Vital Signs Series: Single User | VSS-CD | $400.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Temperature | VST-CD | $125.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Pulse | VSP-CD | $125.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Respiration | VSR-CD | $125.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Blood Pressure | VSB-CD | $125.00 |
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CD Compatibility
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QuickTime is required.
Student Downloads
Downloads are not available for this series.
Student Subscriptions
Fitne offers a 60-day-subscription for $12 to any title in our online collection of videos and interactive programs in the Fitne Virtual Learning Resource Center (VLRC). Your subscriptions let you view the programs from anywhere for 60 days after purchase using a computer with internet access. These subscriptions are for individual student use only!
| Users | Duration | Code | Price | Purchase | |
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| Vital Signs: Temperature | 1 | 60 days | VST-V-60S | $12.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Pulse | 1 | 60 days | VSP-V-60S | $12.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Respiration | 1 | 60 days | VSR-V-60S | $12.00 |
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| Vital Signs: Blood Pressure | 1 | 60 days | VSB-V-60S | $12.00 |
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