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thank you all so much for your great advice i appreciate it!

no i cant do that stuff...its an off site across the st from the hospital a satelite office and i can do the vitals..blood work and assist for pre op

right now i am a ma but my position is in a hospital so the title and description hires either a lpn or ma to do the job but i am starting program this sept

i agree ive watched drs and nurses do the job and they all seem to do it different. when i get a reading i am writing down what i am hearing and yet feeling comfortable and then the dr will recheck my reading sometimes and it can change from 120/80 to 150/100 or something. i dont understand sometimes

yes i am using a littman II

Ok so i have been a medical assistant/lpn:mad: for a couple of months now. I work for the most anal primary care group. when i take a blood pressure sometimes i can get 120/80 and some how when the dr checks it again on ther "md recheck" they can sometimes come out with a reading of 150/90! how can that be? Can a persons blood pressure change so drastically within a 5-10 time span? if not then what am i doing wrong. I use the right size cuff. I place it right where the artery sign is over artery and i sometimes get way off readings and sometimes cant hear anything at all. is that also normal.. and my biggest concern is taking a blood pressure on a overweight person waying over 300lbs...taking their blood pressure with a thigh cuff, first of all i can get the cuff over ther arm cuz th cuff is so wide and their arms are so large and short. one of the other medical assistants said its normal to but scethescop under cuff but i cant hear a thing. I do not want to give false readings and i want to be a pro at taking blood pressures. can someone help?