Focus on Adult Health's Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests [AA.VV. - LIPPINCOTT Williams and Wilkins]

This companion book to Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing is a concise, portable, full-color handbook of hundreds of test results and their implications. The two-part presentation includes a review of specimen collection procedures followed by an alphabetical list of tests. Tests include important information about reference values, normal and abnormal values as well as associated nursing implications, interfering factors, and essential nursing considerations before, during, and after the test. --Full-color design and illustrations --Alphabetic, color-coded list of tests --Concise, clinical facts --Nursing Alerts highlighting critical information --Charts and illustrations comparing normal and abnormal findings