To sign 'blood pressure', use your dominant hand to grasp your non-dominant upper arm around the bicep. Squeeze your hand a couple of times, mimicking the action of a blood pressure cuff inflating. Keep your non-dominant arm relaxed while making this motion.
Sign 'nurse', point to the person you are speaking to, and then sign 'blood pressure' by squeezing your upper arm to indicate the test.
Point to yourself, sign 'blood pressure', and then sign 'high' by raising a flat hand or an 'H' handshape upward to show the elevated level.
Sign 'medicine', then 'blood pressure', and hold a questioning facial expression with raised eyebrows to indicate a yes/no question.
Sign 'nurse', point to the person you are speaking to, and then sign 'blood pressure' by squeezing your upper arm to indicate the test.
Point to yourself, sign 'blood pressure', and then sign 'high' by raising a flat hand or an 'H' handshape upward to show the elevated level.
Sign 'medicine', then 'blood pressure', and hold a questioning facial expression with raised eyebrows to indicate a yes/no question.
No, in most everyday and medical contexts, simply mimicking the squeezing of the cuff on your upper arm is universally understood as 'blood pressure' without needing to sign 'blood' separately.
You should use your dominant hand to squeeze your non-dominant upper arm. If you are right-handed, your right hand will squeeze your left bicep.
Two gentle squeezes are usually perfect. It provides enough movement to clearly show the pumping action of the cuff without dragging out the sign unnecessarily.
