Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications

Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications

<p style="margin: 0px;"> <i>For students in masters, baccalaureate, associate degree, diploma, and practical nursing programs – and for RNs and LPNs working in hospital settings. </i> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <i> <br> </i> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b>Everything students and practicing nurses need to know about laboratory and diagnostic testing, with an emphasis on nursing implications and patient education.</b> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <br> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> <b> <i>Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications</i> </b> is designed to provide quick, pertinent information about laboratory and diagnostic testing, and the corresponding nursing implications. Author Joyce LeFever Kee discusses each test in the context of seven subsections: Reference Values/Normal Findings (for children and adults), Description, Purpose, Clinical Problems, Procedure, Factors Affecting Laboratory or Diagnostic Results, and Nursing Implications with Rationale and Client Teaching. In the <b>10th Edition</b>, you'll find new, rewritten, or updated coverage of dozens of tests; new Situational Study Questions; an updated section on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring that includes HIV drugs; and revised appendices addressing everything from abbreviations to test values. <i> <i> <br> </i> </i> </p> <i> <i> </i> </i>