Lung Exams

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This should probably go in the Nursing student section, but I thought you all might like to see this anyway. I was just looking up pictures on the net to convince my husband to quit smoking. I came across this site on how to do a lung exam and thought I would share it.

http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/lung.htm

Chantel

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This should probably go in the Nursing student section, but I thought you all might like to see this anyway. I was just looking up pictures on the net to convince my husband to quit smoking. I came across this site on how to do a lung exam and thought I would share it.

http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/lung.htm

Chantel

Thanks for the Link Chantel, there are lots of good assesments that will help us in nursing school. Also many of those things help with AP we did a section on lung sounds and there is the vital signs section we had a lab on in AP. So I am glad you posted it here.

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

chantels1. . .very nice of you to post this! this website is actually already posted on one of the sticky threads on the nursing student assistance forums:

these kinds of resources will be of great help to you when you get into actual nursing classes.

here is a site where you can learn how to distinguish between the different sounds you hear in the lung when you are listening with a stethoscope. this is also part of assessing the lung:

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