Beenthinking

I'm considering Nursing or "Beenthinking" about it. I need to know if anybody knows or is someone who uses hearing aids and is able to use a stethescope for heart/lung/bowel sounds and bp's. I have tinnitus is both and wear aids that fit compleatly...

Just remember that an amplified steth will enable you to hear sounds others can't also hear. Exanple: It was almost impossible to get a systolic with a manual cuff. You have to crush thier arm with it just to minimize the sound and the diastolic w...

I hear too well with the electronic steth though. Korotkoff sounds diminish at a much wider reading, or not at all, than someone with normal hearing. I guess I'll have to try and adjust the volume control so it can more closely match normal hearing...

Getting ready to look into a nursing program and I have bilateral tinitus with those fancy in the ear aids. I found those to very difficult to work with. I was thinking maybe got to the behind the ear so all you woud take out of the ear is a transp...

The walkman style sounds interesting. The amplified stethescope, although technicaly better, would give me a different assessment from someone with normal hearing. I've used those as a medic on manual pressures and the results are unreliable. I al...