Nursing Students Complain About Low Quality Stethoscopes

Valencia, California -- Nursing students are often given a welcome package once they begin the nursing program.  These welcome packages usually include patches that identify them as nursing students from their particular school, resource kits, and often an entrée point stethoscope.  Nursing students complain that they can’t afford to purchase professional quality stethoscopes and the ones issued usually serve better as Halloween costume accessories than a tool of the trade.

“I don't have the money out of pocket to buy a stethoscope outright and would love a real stethoscope. The trial ones that were given in our nursing kits are horrible and I can't hear anything with them,” stated nursing student Alan Anderson.  “I thought I was set, I wasn’t expecting this.”

Currently nursing students across the country are gearing up to start their new school year.  Most students are holding down jobs while they go to school.  Other students rely on family to help them with the cost of being a student. 

Raul Meza, president of Passionate Care Stethoscopes spoke of the frustration shared by many nursing students, “Finances are a factor for many. A quality stethoscope can be expensive and easily run in the $150 to $200 dollar range so there is a sense of relief when they are told that a stethoscope will be issued to them.  This relief soon turns to panic when they realized that the stethoscopes quality is so poor that it results in more of a hindrance than a blessing.”

Passionate Care LLC has addressed this issue by releasing a high quality, nursing student friendly stethoscope.  This stethoscope was designed with the high quality tubing, aluminum dual head, and the soft tight seal ear tips.  It is a stethoscope that will not need to be replaced once a student graduates as a nurse.

“As a onetime graduate of nursing school I understand their challenges only too well.  This is real for them; life does not stop just because they go to school.  Bills don’t stop just because they are stretching themselves professionally.  They need some help and they need the right tools.  I remember this, that is why the development of this new stethoscope was so important to me,” affirmed Meza.  Details on this new stethoscope can be found at http://www.passionatecarestethoscope.com.