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Exploring the Five Cardiac Auscultation Areas

Join Dr. Olivia and Ava as they demonstrate the five primary cardiac auscultation sites used during a heart examination. Together, they show the correct stethoscope placement for the Aortic, Pulmonic, Erb’s Point, Tricuspid, and Mitral areas, helping students and healthcare professionals better understand heart sound assessment and clinical examination techniques.

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Life in stething, it's fantastic

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We're All in Steth Together

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Euphoria

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I'll Be Steth with You

The One with the Stethoscopes

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Listening to the Heart – Learning Through Touch, Sound, and Trust

In a bright clinical skills room, Emily Carter sits on the edge of an examination table, relaxed but attentive. Around her stand four fellow nursing students, stethoscopes ready, preparing for a focused practice session on one of nursing’s most fundamental skills: listening to the heart.

The atmosphere is calm and purposeful. Emily smiles softly as she removes her nursing top and lies back on the examination table, settling into position. At the same moment, Sarah Mitchell, Olivia Reynolds, Hannah Brooks, and Jasmine Walker lift their stethoscopes and place the earpieces firmly in their ears, ready to listen.

More Than Just a Technique

Auscultation requires precision—knowing where to place the stethoscope, how to listen, and what to listen for. As the exercise begins, all four students lean in slightly. Four stethoscope diaphragms rest simultaneously against Emily’s chest, each positioned with care to capture the subtle sounds of her heart.

This shared moment allows them to experience the same heartbeat from slightly different positions, comparing rhythm, tone, and clarity in real time. The room grows quiet, broken only by soft breathing and the faint, steady sounds transmitted through rubber tubing.

– “When you listen to the heart, you’re not just hearing sounds,” says Sarah Mitchell afterward. “You’re learning how to focus, how to be present, and how to trust what you’re hearing.”

Learning Through Trust

Emily’s comfort is central to the exercise. Acting as a model patient requires openness and confidence, and her relaxed posture reflects the trust she places in her peers. The students move with professionalism and respect, aware that technical skill and human sensitivity must go hand in hand.

Jasmine Walker notes that practicing together makes a difference.

– “It helps to know that others are hearing the same thing. You learn faster, and you learn better.”

A Moment That Matters

The image captures more than a training session. It shows a formative moment in the education of future nurses—where textbooks give way to real experience, and a simple tool like a stethoscope becomes a bridge between knowledge and care.

Here, listening to the heart is both literal and symbolic: a lesson in anatomy, attention, and the quiet responsibility that comes with the profession.

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Santa's beautiful helper

All Emily wanted for Christmas was a little auscultation, so Jack decided to make it happen.

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Stethoscope under the Christmas tree

Daniel and Olivia exchanged Christmas gifts. Both clearly received meaningful gifts. Apparently, the gift-opening was interrupted for a while because of more interesting things.

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Merry Xmas!

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Gemini

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Group photos with roommates from Lindsay's scrapbook

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simonehheartbeat

I've watched @simoheartbeat's content and I like it :)

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Summer course stething

Emma is on a summer course run by people interested in nursing studies. Today, the course participants have the opportunity to use a stethoscope and the nurse teaching the course has taken Emma as a demonstration patient for the lesson. The nurse listens to Emma's heart with a stethoscope while everyone else follows. A few willing people also get to listen to Emma's heart. Soon, they are divided into pairs and Emma uses this time to listen to her own heart with a stethoscope. It so happens that Emma gets her crush as her training partner and the training between them becomes absolutely unforgettable!

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Kim Possible

Call me, beep me, if ya wanna steth me!

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A school assignment

Lauren and Amber have been assigned a school assignment to learn about the heart. To do this, they borrow Lauren's mother's stethoscope and listen to each other's hearts with it. While listening, they realize that they are in love with each other.

The people in the pictures are adults.

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Isabella & stethoscope

It all started when young nursing student Isabella volunteered to be a patient during a class where they were practicing listening to the heart with a stethoscope. Since then, Isabella has always carried a stethoscope with her and used it every chance she got. Isabella loves listening to her own heart, someone else's heart, and to have someone else listen to hers.

Do you want to see more of Isabella?

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Happy Halloween!

What outfit would you consider great for listening with a stethoscope? Here are a couple of options. Can you think of any others?