Pulse Oximeter Simulator — Skills Lab Room | Coach Katie's Clinical Club

Coach Katie

Welcome back to the Skills Lab. 😊 The little clip on a finger looks simple, but a pulse oximeter is only as good as how you use it. A great nurse gets a clean signal first, then decides whether to trust the number. We'll do this in three quick steps: set it up well, judge whether a reading is reliable, and pick the right SpO₂ target. Tap your way through — I'll coach you at each step.

◉ PULSE OXIMETER● GOOD SIGNAL

SpO₂

98%

♥ 72 bpm

Step A · Placement & conditions

Set it up for a clean signal

Tap every action that helps you get a reading you can trust. Leave the bad habits unselected.

Step B · Is this reading reliable?

Cold hand, weak flat waveform — reads SpO₂ 85%

Your patient is talking comfortably and looks well, but the hand is cold and the waveform is weak and flat. What do you do?

Step C · Pick the right target

Your patient has COPD (a chronic CO₂ retainer)

There is an order to titrate oxygen to the appropriate SpO₂ target. Which target fits this patient?

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Every device you master lights up here. (Building toward the full real-room photo Dr. Rob is sending.)

⚑ Build notes for Lucy/Pace & Dr. Rob: swap the stand-in logo for FFH_WHITE_LOGO_SRC; when Dr. Rob sends the real hospital-room photo, we can map each device hot-spot onto it so tapping a device opens its skill module. The fluid/rate physiology here is a teaching model, not a dosing tool — clinical fluid choice always follows the provider's order.

The Pulse Oximeter

Set it up for a clean signal

Cold hand, weak flat waveform — reads SpO₂ 85%

Your patient has COPD (a chronic CO₂ retainer)

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