Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications - Softcover

Kee, Joyce LeFever

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9780838536186: Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838536182 ISBN 13: 9780838536186

Publisher: Pearson, 1994

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For all clinical courses in the nursing curriculum, especially medical-surgical (adult health) and fundamentals.

This reference provides quick, pertinent information on more than 420 laboratory and diagnostic tests–with emphasis on reference values and normal findings, descriptions, purposes, procedures, clinical problems and drug effects, factors affecting test results, nursing implications and client teaching. Laboratory and diagnostic tests are represented separately and organized in alphabetical order for easy location.

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This quick reference provides quick, pertinent information on laboratory and diagnostic tests―with emphasis on reference values and normal findings, descriptions, purposes, procedures, clinical problems and drug effects, factors affecting test results, nursing implications and client teaching. Laboratory and diagnostic tests are represented separately and organized in alphabetical order for easy location within the text.

Features

Covers more than 420 laboratory and diagnostic tests.
Provides reference lists of all laboratory and diagnostic tests, with page numbers, for quick location of tests, determination of normal and abnormal results, and other related information.
Nursing implications with client teaching included with each test.
Includes current reference values and guidelines for adults and children, the latest tests for HIV-1 and HIV-2, and current data for diagnostic tests, such as gastric analysis; various stress/exercise tests, pap smear, echocardiography, nuclear scans, ultrasonography, and others.
Unique coverage of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) tests includes lists of the therapeutic range, peak action time, and toxic levels of selected serum drug levels.

Synopsis:

This handbook provides pertinent information on commonly-ordered laboratory and diagnostic tests. Emphasis is upon reference values/normal findings, procedures, nursing diagnoses and nursing implications. This second edition includes 350 laboratory and diagnostic tests listed alphabetically; 50 new tests; revised information on HIV-1, MRI and pulmonary tests; up-to-date NANDA nursing diagnoses; and a new appendix on therapeutic drug monitoring.

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