Brunner & Suddarth's handbook of laboratory and diagnostic tests

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2014
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Handbooks
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• Item Description: Includes index; Supplement to: Brunner & Suddarth's textbook of medical-surgical nursing / Janice L. Hinkle, Kerry H. Cheever. Thirteenth edition. c2014.
• Physical Description: vii, 549 pages illustrations 20 cm
• ISBN: 9781451190977; 1451190972

The second edition of Brunner & Suddarth's Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests is a concise, portable, full-color handbook of hundreds of test results and their implications for nursing. Designed to accompany Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook for Medical-Surgical Nursing , 13th edition, this handbook provides readers with a quick-reference tool for use throughout the nursing curriculum, in clinicals, and in practice. The two-part organization includes a review of specimen collection procedures, followed by a concise, alphabetical list of close to 300 tests and their implications. The entry on each test includes reference values or normal findings, abnormal findings with associated nursing implications, critical values, purpose and description of the test, interfering factors, and nursing considerations for patient care before, during, and after the test