What’s on the Vital Signs poster
A 6-row table: Sign · Typical adult · What alters it.
Typical resting adult values. Approximate — sources and institutions differ.
- Temperature — 36.1–37.2 °C — Route, activity, environment
- Pulse — 60–100 /min — Rate, rhythm and strength
- Respirations — 12–20 /min — Count a full minute, unseen
- Blood pressure — near 120/80 mmHg — Cuff size, posture, arm
- SpO₂ — 94–98% on air — Perfusion, nail varnish, motion
- Consciousness — Alert — Use AVPU or GCS to grade it
Educational reference. Ranges are approximate and vary with age, source and local policy. Your institution's chart and escalation protocol govern.
Questions about the Vital Signs poster
- What’s on the Vital Signs poster?
- A 6-row table: Sign · Typical adult · What alters it. Typical resting adult values. Approximate — sources and institutions differ. Temperature — 36.1–37.2 °C — Route, activity, environment; Pulse — 60–100 /min — Rate, rhythm and strength; Respirations — 12–20 /min — Count a full minute, unseen; Blood pressure — near 120/80 mmHg — Cuff size, posture, arm; SpO₂ — 94–98% on air — Perfusion, nail varnish, motion; Consciousness — Alert — Use AVPU or GCS to grade it. Educational reference. Ranges are approximate and vary with age, source and local policy. Your institution's chart and escalation protocol govern.
- Who is the Vital Signs poster for?
- Vital Signs belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning fundamentals can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Vital Signs poster?
- The trend across a chart tells you more than any single set of numbers. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Vital Signs belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Vital Signs?
- The Chain of Infection, Writing a Care Plan and Nursing Records sit alongside Vital Signs 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 Chain of InfectionWriting a Care PlanNursing Records
- Is the Vital Signs poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Vital Signs 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 Vital Signs poster print at?
- Vital Signs 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 Vital Signs loses nothing.Printing guide
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