Here's the information nurses and nursing students need to know about laboratory and diagnostic tests! This nursing-focused, easy-to-read handbook provides all of the information you need to understand how tests work, interpret their results, and provide quality patient care, including assessing, monitoring, and teaching at every stage of care-pre-test, intra-test, and post-test. Tests and procedures are listed in alphabetical order by their complete name for quick reference. The integrated index allows fast searches by abbreviation, synonym, disease/disorder, specimen type, or test classification. Plus, a Body Systems Appendix includes a list of common laboratory and diagnostic tests for each body system as well as nutrition-related lab tests.
Author(s): Anne M. Van Leeuwen, Marijke Vroomen-Durning, Debra J. Poelhuis
Edition: 3
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 1403
Dedication......Page 3
About This Book......Page 4
Preface......Page 9
Monographs......Page 11
System Tables......Page 1247
APPENDIX A: Patient Preparation and Specimen Collection......Page 1261
APPENDIX B: Potential Nursing Diagnoses Associated with Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing......Page 1274
APPENDIX C: Guidelines for Age-Specific Communication......Page 1275
APPENDIX D: Transfusion Reactions: Laboratory Findings and Potential Nursing Interventions......Page 1279
APPENDIX E: Introduction to CLIA 1988 & 1992......Page 1283
APPENDIX F: Effects of Natural Products on Laboratory Values......Page 1284
APPENDIX G: Standard and Universal Precautions......Page 1287
Bibliography......Page 1303
Index......Page 1311
