What’s on the Glasgow Coma Scale poster
15 entries in 3 groups.
Score the best response in each component. Minimum 3, maximum 15.
- Eye opening · max 4: 4 · Spontaneous, 3 · To sound, 2 · To pressure, 1 · None
- Verbal · max 5: 5 · Orientated, 4 · Confused, 3 · Words, 2 · Sounds, 1 · None
- Motor · max 6: 6 · Obeys commands, 5 · Localises, 4 · Normal flexion, 3 · Abnormal fl…
Educational reference. Record non-testable components rather than guessing them. A fall of 2 or more points is escalated under local protocol.
Questions about the Glasgow Coma Scale poster
- What’s on the Glasgow Coma Scale poster?
- 15 entries in 3 groups. Score the best response in each component. Minimum 3, maximum 15. Eye opening · max 4: 4 · Spontaneous, 3 · To sound, 2 · To pressure, 1 · None; Verbal · max 5: 5 · Orientated, 4 · Confused, 3 · Words, 2 · Sounds, 1 · None; Motor · max 6: 6 · Obeys commands, 5 · Localises, 4 · Normal flexion, 3 · Abnormal fl…. Educational reference. Record non-testable components rather than guessing them. A fall of 2 or more points is escalated under local protocol.
- Who is the Glasgow Coma Scale poster for?
- Glasgow Coma Scale belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning assessment can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Glasgow Coma Scale poster?
- Report the three parts — a total of 9 can mean several very different patients. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Glasgow Coma Scale belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Glasgow Coma Scale?
- The ABCDE Approach, Abdominal Assessment and Breath Sounds sit alongside Glasgow Coma Scale in the Nursing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The ABCDE ApproachAbdominal AssessmentBreath Sounds
- Is the Glasgow Coma Scale poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Glasgow Coma Scale downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Nursing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Glasgow Coma Scale poster print at?
- Glasgow Coma Scale is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Glasgow Coma Scale loses nothing.Printing guide
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