Focus on adult health's laboratory and diagnostic tests

Summary: This companion book to Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing is a concise, portable, full-color handbook that includes examples of test results and their implications. The two-part presentation includes a review of specimen collection procedures followed by an alphabetical list of tests. Tests include vital information to help the nurse fully understand the purpose of the test, its findings, and the nurse's role throughout the test. Focus on important test content: Reference values; Abnormal values; Nursing implications; Interfering factors; Precautions; Nursing considerations before, during, and after the test. Nursing alerts highlight critical information; Charts and illustrations comparing normal and abnormal findings; Alphabetic and color-coding for easy access to tests.