A nursing instructor is educating students on preventing high false readings when taking blood pressures with a manual blood pressure cuff. Which of the following students would be at risk for obtaining a false high reading on a client?

Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu

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A nursing instructor is educating students on preventing high false readings when taking blood pressures with a manual blood pressure cuff. Which of the following students would be at risk for obtaining a false high reading on a client? 
 
   Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu   
 
 ID: 137304

Accepted Answer

A student who deflates the cuff too slowly

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A student who places the client's arm above their heart level when obtaining the blood pressure

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A student chooses a bladder or cuff that is too wide for the client

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A student with a poor-fitting stethoscope causing sounds to be muffled

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