Assessment & Diagnosis - Nursing, Laboratory Medicine, Diagnosis, Nursing Reference
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Overview
This helpful text explains every relevant aspect of laboratory and diagnostic testing, enabling the reader to provide the best and most complete patient care. Coverage includes: primary and other commonly used test names; test descriptions, including relevant anatomy and physiology, indications and the test's theoretical basis; normal values; abnormal values; possible meanings of abnormal values; contributing factors to abnormal values; contraindications; pre-test nursing care; procedures; and post-test nursing care. The text also provides three appendices consisting of drug references and common test groupings; a bibliography of sources used; and a comprehensive listing of all test names and abbreviations.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Book Details
Published
October 1, 1998
Publisher
Philadelphia : Lippincott-Raven Publishers, c1998.
Pages
550
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780781718349