Nurse's Manual of Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures

By Louise M. Malarkey and Mary Ellen McMorrow

This comprehensive text and reference provides a clear, consistent presentation of more than 700 laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures with an expanded focus on nursing implications. The book provides background information about eachtest; explains normal and abnormal test results; and emphasizes nursing care for the patient undergoing the test.Provides the conventional and International Units of Measure for normal values for each test and procedure for all phases of the life spanfrom the pre-mature infant to the elderly.Includes over 120 unique complication tables, easily located via a special icon.
Uses over 170 line drawing and photographs of imaging modalities and graph recording to clarify concepts, illustrate techniques and demonstrate abnormal findings.Organizes chapters into logical body system sections.Introduces a completely new chapter on genetic testing, as well as many new tests, including urea breath test, helical CT scan, triponin, haptoglobin, and urinary myoglobin.Augments the critical thinking questions with discussions in the back of the book.
Identifies critical or panic values of extremely abnormal test results.Presents specific home test procedures and identifies them with a special icon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721678122
• ISBN13: 9780721678122
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 886 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 9.1"

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Nurse's text

This was purchased as a required textbook for my daughter taking nursing classes. The book was received as described by the seller.