LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Tests, 3rd Edition

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