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Laboratory and diagnostic tests with nursing implications/ Joyce LeFever Kee.

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For students in masters, baccalaureate, associate degree, diploma, and practical nursing programs, and for RNs and LPNs working in hospital settings. LABORATORY AND DIAGNOSTIC TESTS WITH NURSING IMPLICATIONS, 9/e brings together current information on more than 420 modern laboratory and diagnostic tests, together with their corresponding nursing implications. For each test, it presents reference values/normal findings, descriptions, purpose(s), clinical problems, procedures, factors affecting results, and nursing implications with rationales, including client teaching. This edition contains new, rewritten, or updated coverage of dozens of tests, including IgE, arsenic, blood smear, chromosomal analysis, CBC, cyanide, cytokines, heroin, HIV, influenza, macular degeneration risk analysis, SCID, sexual assault/attack, ABG, bilirubin tests, C-reactive protein (hs CRP) and glucose, cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, colonoscopy, ERCP, CT, MRI, and many others. An updated section on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring now covers HIV drugs, and revised appendices address everything from abbreviations to test values.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780133139051 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0133139050 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 807 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: 9th ed.
  • Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson, c2014.

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Formatted Contents Note:
gpt. One Laboratory Tests -- Situational Study Questions -- pt. Two Diagnostic Tests -- Situational Study Questions -- pt. Three Laboratory/Diagnostic Assessments of Body Function -- pt. Four Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) -- pt. Five School Health Services: Education, Screening, and Testing -- Appendix A: Abbreviations -- Appendix B: Laboratory test groups; panels and profiles -- Appendix C: Health problems with laboratory and diagnostic tests -- Appendix D: Laboratory test values for adults and children.
Subject: Clinical laboratory techniques > Handbooks.
Laboratory Techniques and Procedures-nursing.
Nursing.
Clinical laboratory techniques > Nurses' instruction.
Nursing Diagnosis-methods.
Diagnostic Tests, Routine > Handbooks.
Diagnosis, Laboratory.

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