Brunner & Suddarth's Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496355119)

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Publisher's Note:
Confidently interpret test results throughout your nursing curriculum, in clinicals, and in practice.
Designed to accompany Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook for Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th Edition, this concise, portable, full-color handbook gives you quick access to hundreds of test results and their implications for nursing. Easily review specimen collection procedures and access a concise, alphabetical list of nearly 300 tests and their implications.

• Find the information you need fast for each test:
  • Reference values, critical values, and/or normal findings
  • Abnormal findings with associated nursing implications
  • Purpose and description
  • Interfering factors
  • Nursing considerations for patient care before, during, and/or after the tes
• Confidently address priority care issues and potentially hazardous or life-threatening situations with clearly identified best practices and warnings.
• Locate presentations of diseases, disorders, measurements, testing equipment, and examples of results at a glance in figures, tables, and boxes.

Author: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN-10: 1496355113
ISBN-13: 9781496355119
Publisher: LWW
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2017
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.80d