What Types of Tools Do Nurses Use?

Video Transcript

"My name is Contessa Hunziger. I am an LPN. I work for Heartland Occupational Medicine. Some types of tools that nurses use on a daily basis would be a sphygnonometer which is to take your blood pressure, take your temperature, make sure you're not running a fever. Of course you use your fingers just to take a pulse and your watch. Some other types of tools that we use or that I use myself I do physicals where I work at, so I use this machine which is called an archon. It doesn't special testing if somebody has been hurt before or previously, they come into me. And I work them out on this machine so - to make sure that they are not going to be a liability for a company and that it is a pre-existing, it has not happened since they have been on the job. What I have this set up for now is an arm lift. And what I tell a person when they're in here is that this does not move, but that they need to use enough force against it like they are trying to move it, and the information goes through the computer. And that's where it's printed out at. So the arm lift, what they have to do is come up here, and they put their hands right here. And when I start the computer they have to lift up on this with all their force that they can handle to get a good reading. Then I can also do a leg lift, torso lift and all other kinds of stuff. Companies come into me when they are hiring people to make sure that they are strong enough, don't have any pre-existing problems. And that nothing hopefully will happen to them on the job. What I do here, when a patient comes in we check their blood pressure to make sure that it is within normal ranges. And depending on your doctor, some doctors want you to be between a hundred and thirty over eighty, some want you to be one twenty over seventy, just depends on where they want you to be at. But it's always better to be about one thirty over eighty. This generally the doctors do but we can sometimes do this if a patient comes in complaining of their - of ear pain or things like that. This is a otoscope for looking in the ear. This right here is a hazardous bin, this is where any bodily fluids, blood, things like that go into. You don't want to put those into the trash can, because somebody may... I appreciate your watching. My name is Contessa Hunziger, LPN, I work for Heartland Occupational Medicine."