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A Davis's Notes book. LabNotes provides students, nurses, and other health professionals with a quick and portable reference tool for competently explaining, preparing, and caring for patients before, during, and after common lab and diagnostic testing. Concise information competently explains lab reference ranges and considerations, diagnostic test purposes and procedures, pre-test preparation, and post-test care.
Key Features:
- Covers essentials for more than 400 lab and diagnostic tests
- Includes lab tests, radiography, arteriography, nuclear- and non-nuclear imaging, endoscopy, organ function and electrophysiology tests
- Panic lab levels and nurse alerts are identified
- Illustrations show positioning and views, tube top colors, examples of x-ray, mammogram, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, whole skeleton bone scan, and lung scan images
- Patient education guidelines and tips
- Critical thinking approach is employed throughout
- Pages are waterproof and reusable
- HIPAA-compliant—write directly on pages, temporarily recording clinical data that can be wiped clean with alcohol and used again
- OSHA-compliant—splashes and spills wipe clean with alcohol
- Truly pocket sized
Publishers: FA Davis
Author: Tracey Hopkins, BSN, RN, Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 216
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