What’s on the Children's Vital Signs poster
A 5-row table: Age · Pulse per min · Breaths per min.
Approximate resting ranges. Sources and local charts differ; use your own.
- Under 1 year — 110–160 — 30–40
- 1–2 years — 100–150 — 25–35
- 2–5 years — 95–140 — 25–30
- 5–12 years — 80–120 — 20–25
- Over 12 years — 60–100 — 15–20
Educational reference. Approximate figures only; crying and fever raise them. Blood pressure falls late in children — use your local paediatric chart.
Questions about the Children's Vital Signs poster
- What’s on the Children's Vital Signs poster?
- A 5-row table: Age · Pulse per min · Breaths per min. Approximate resting ranges. Sources and local charts differ; use your own. Under 1 year — 110–160 — 30–40; 1–2 years — 100–150 — 25–35; 2–5 years — 95–140 — 25–30; 5–12 years — 80–120 — 20–25; Over 12 years — 60–100 — 15–20. Educational reference. Approximate figures only; crying and fever raise them. Blood pressure falls late in children — use your local paediatric chart.
- Who is the Children's Vital Signs poster for?
- Children's Vital Signs belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning maternal & child can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Children's Vital Signs poster?
- Children compensate well and then fail suddenly, so trend matters even more. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Children's 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 Children's Vital Signs?
- The Apgar Score, Supporting Breastfeeding and Developmental Milestones sit alongside Children's 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 Apgar ScoreSupporting BreastfeedingDevelopmental Milestones
- Is the Children's Vital Signs poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Children's 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 Children's Vital Signs poster print at?
- Children's 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 Children's Vital Signs loses nothing.Printing guide
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