 Welcome to Nursing School Explained in this video of the assessment of a radio pulse. So I have my patient here already and I want to just do a quick review of the anatomy. So if we look at the hand here on the thumb side we have the radius, the forearm bone, and on the pinky side we have the ulna, the other forearm bone. And the radio pulse is called the radio pulse because we assess it on the side of the radius, which is the thumb side. So what we want to do is we want to use two fingers and use your index and your middle finger and line them up along the artery close to the carpals here. And so you want to find that spot and press as hard or as little as you need to in order to feel the pulse pulsating underneath you, the artery pulsating underneath you. And then once you find it, take your watch, count for either 15 seconds and multiply by 4 or count for 30 seconds and multiply by 2. Keep in mind that if the patient's pulse is irregular it's always best to count for a 4 minute or even better to check the apical pulse which I have a separate video about. Thanks for watching Nursing School Explained, also check out the other videos for the pulse assessment.