Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications - Softcover

Kee, Joyce LeFever; Tang, Helen Liang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083855573X ISBN 13: 9780838555736

Publisher: Appleton and Lange, 1995

Synopsis

For Medical Surgical Nursing or Lab and Diagnosis courses.

Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications is designed to provide nursing students with the necessary information regarding laboratory and diagnostic tests and corresponding nursing implications. It gives quick, pertinent information about the tests, emphasizing the purposes, procedure and nursing implications with rationale. The sixth edition lists more than 400 laboratory and diagnostic tests with approximately 28 new tests.

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From the Back Cover:

Providing quick, pertinent information, Joyce LeFever Kee's Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications, 6e is a valuable resource for nursing students and professionals alike. More than 400 laboratory and diagnostic tests emphasize the purposes, procedures, and nursing implications with rationale. Alphabetical listings and seven subheadings provide a user-friendly format that makes the information easily accessible. Included in the Sixth Edition are:

• Selected new laboratory tests that include:
  • High sensitivity C-reactive protein
  • Amyloid beta protein precursor
  • Viral cultures using various specimens
  • Hematologic tests
  • Antibody tests
• Selected new diagnostic tests that include:
  • Bone densitometry
  • Corneal staining
  • Cystometry
  • Fetal nonstress test
  • Fetoscopy
• Updated laboratory test values for adults and children listed according to laboratory departments.
• Laboratory/Diagnostic Assessments of Body Function section that provides numerous laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered to assist in the diagnosis of disease entities and to determine organ function.
• Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) section that lists over 100 drugs used when identifying therapeutic and toxic serum drug levels.

Other Titles of Interest
Kee, Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 4e ISBN: 0-13-030517-0
Wilson/Shannon/Stang, Prentice Hall's Nurse's Drug Guide 2002 ISBN: 0-13-042038-7

Synopsis:

This thoroughly updated text contains information on over 350 laboratory and diagnostic tests in an alphabetical format. Each entry covers: the name of the test, reference values/normal findings, description, clinical problems, procedures, factors affecting laboratory and diagnostic results, and nursing implications with rationales. Nursing implications are provided through nursing assessment, judgement, implementation, teaching, and interaction. New to this edition are antiviral tests: Encephalitis virus, Herpes Simplex I and II, Adenovirus and Enterovirus. An additional 41 drugs have been included in the therapeutic Drug Monitoring list.

About this edition

• Publisher: Appleton and Lange
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 083855573X
• ISBN 13: 9780838555736
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 710