Competency Performance Checklist

Tagoloan Community College

College of Midwifery

Name: Date:

CI: _ _________________________________ Section:

Scoring
1 – Excellent
2 – Very Good
3 – Good
4 – Needs Improvement
5 - Failed

ASSESSING RADIAL PULSE

CHECKLIST 1 2 3 4 5
Assessing Radial Pulse
1. Identify patient.
2. Explain procedure to the patient.
3. Gather equipment.
4. Perform hand hygiene and don gloves as appropriate.
5. Select the appropriate site.
6. Patient may either be supine with arm alongside body, wrist extended, and
palms lateral or facing down or sitting with forearm at a 90-degree angle to body
resting on a support with wrist extended and palm downward or facing laterally.
7. Place your first, second, and third fingers along patient’s radial artery and
press gently against the radius. Rest your thumb on back of patient’s wrist.
8. Apply only enough pressure to distinctly feel the artery.
9. Using a watch with a second hand, count the number of pulsations felt for 1
full minute.
10. Perform hand hygiene.
11. Record pulse rate and site on paper flow sheet, or computerized record.
Report abnormal findings to appropriate person. Identify assessment site if other
than apical.

TOTAL SCORE = ______ = ______ %

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