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LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Tests, 3rd Edition
Catalog No.: Y40001
Publisher/Vendor: FA Davis Author: Tracey Hopkins, BSN, RN Copyright: 2015 Pages: 235 Size: 3.25 x 1 x 6.5 inches Format: Spiral-bound book
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LabNotes: Nurses' Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Tests, 3rd Edition is a portable reference to explain, prepare, and care for patients before, during, and after common lab and diagnostic testing.
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.
- Identifies panic lab levels and nurse alerts.
- Features illustrations that show positioning and views, specimen tube top colors, and examples of X-ray, mammogram, CT scan, MRI, ultrasound, whole skeleton bone scan, and lung scan images.
- Offers patient education guidelines and tips.
- Uses wipe-on/wipe-off, HIPAA-compliant pages.
New to this Edition
- Thoroughly updated and revised throughout to include new tests, new applications for existing tests, and changes in procedures, patient preparation, and teaching.
- Easier-to-use, quick-reference design and layout.
- New nursing-focused features
- Icons highlighting nursing responsibilities
- New section in the Tools tab addressing lab and diagnostic questions on NCLEX exams
- New section on genomic testing and its applications.
- Cutting-edge coverage of powerful, new diagnostic tools and the astonishing details that they are revealing about the human body.
Table of Contents
- Basics
- Labs A-F
- Labs G-Z
- X-rays/CT Scans
- MRI/US
- Nuclear Scans
- Other Tests
- Tools
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