Learning Exercise

Understanding Heart sounds

Educational presentation with heart sounds that allows the student to hear the sound as the student reviews the physiology of normal and abnormal heart sounds.

Course: Nursing

Material:: The Auscultation Assistant
Date last modified:: November 8, 2009
Created by:: Carla Morton
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The Auscultation Assistant

This provides text description and audio examples of various heart and breath sounds. The sounds are broken up into... see more

Material Type:: Animation
Author:: Christopher Cable, MD, UCLA
User Rating:: 5 stars

Exercise

Learning exercise and assigned chapter reading.

Disciplines

Health Sciences / Nursing

Audience

Grade School

Requirements

none

Topics

Heart sounds

Type of Task

Student-centered

Learning Objectives

1. Student will comprehend normal heart valve physiology. 2. Student will categorize types of murmurs. 3. Student will identify auscultation of various heart murmurs.

Assessment

Assessment URL: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/addAssignment.htm