Brunner & Suddarth's Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests

Author: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Brand: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Edition: 3

EAN: 9781496355119

Release Date: 09-11-2017

Package Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.0 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 560

Details: Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!

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.