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I know there are several posts about this, but they are from a while ago and I still haven't found a good answer. I am starting my second semester of nursing and need a really good stethoscope for the rest of my clinicals/rotations. I am very hard of hearing and have practiced numerouse nurses scopes on the cardiac med/surg floor that i work on, and still can not read blood pressures. I am willing to spend money. Is an electronic one a good idea? in the spring i will be doing my rotations and will need something for peds and neo, so should i get one thats veritile, or get a cheaper one when the time comes for that? please please please help me. thank you so much! :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
I know there are several posts about this, but they are from a while ago and I still haven't found a good answer. I am starting my second semester of nursing and need a really good stethoscope for the rest of my clinicals/rotations. I am very hard of hearing and have practiced numerouse nurses scopes on the cardiac med/surg floor that i work on, and still can not read blood pressures. I am willing to spend money. Is an electronic one a good idea? in the spring i will be doing my rotations and will need something for peds and neo, so should i get one thats veritile, or get a cheaper one when the time comes for that? please please please help me. thank you so much! :uhoh3:

have you checked out the general forum, there have been a few threads recently talking about stethoscopes

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I am very hard of hearing and have practiced numerouse nurses scopes on the cardiac med/surg floor that i work on, and still can not read blood pressures. I am willing to spend money. Is an electronic one a good idea?

Try one. I love my $200 thinklabs ds32a and http://www.balkowitsch.com let me try it out (credit card refunded if not thrilled), see if he'll do that for you.

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Specializes in RN- Med/surg.

If you're hard of hearing maybe an electronic would be a good idea. Hope you find one that works well for you!

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Specializes in LTC/SNF.

I use a Littman electronic stethoscope model 3000 with ambient noise reduction and love it. Cost $260 and well worth it.

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One of my friends from nursing school had the same problem. He bought a Littman electronic one but I dont know the model. He said it really worked for him. He also said it had several features like recording and different things he never used, but you couldn't beat the amplification.

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