Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications (Davis’s Comprehensive Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests With Nursing Implications) Reviews
Book Features
- Author: Anne M. Van Leeuwen
- Language: English
- ISBN10: 0803618263
- ISBN13: 9780803618268
- Condition: New
- Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Book Overview
>>>Here’s the data nurses and nursing students require to know about laboratory and diagnostic tests! This nursing-focused, effortless-to-study handbook supplies all of the info you require to realize how tests work, interpret their results, and supply high quality patient care, which includes assessing, monitoring, and teaching at every single stage of care pre-test, intra-test, and post-test. Tests and procedures are listed in alphabetical order by their full name for speedy reference. The integrated index allows rapidly searches by abbreviation, synonym, disease/disorder, specimen variety, or test classification. Plus, a Physique Systems Appendix includes a list of widespread laboratory and diagnostic tests for each body technique as effectively as nutrition-related lab tests.
Whats New?
* New and expanded pathophysiology information, so you know why a lab test result is increased or decreased.
* New and expanded coverage of patient education and safety.
* Much more data for nursing subspecialties, which includes maternity, neurology, and sensory.
* New and revised coverage of interfering substances, specially those related to medication and nutraceuticals.
* Expanded cross referencing of connected lab and diagnostic tests in every single monograph.
* Revised and expanded Body Program tables appendix now includes ocular diagnostic tests and nutrition-related lab tests.
* New heads highlight Sensitivity to Social and Cultural Issues and Nutritional Considerations for every single test, where suitable.
* New table on National Patient Safety Objectives, correlating The Joint Commission s patient safety standards to laboratory and diagnostic test content material specific to nurses.
Important Features
* Monographs every single written particularly to f…
Fabulous in book form, not so much for kindle,
This book is the gold standard in BOOK form…on the kindle, it is cumbersome and difficult to find the test you want…every word i attempted to find in the index returned a box that stated ‘this…
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|Great Resource,
I have found this book to be a handy resource at work. It is well organized and very thorough in its discriptions.
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|A must for nursing students!,
This is the absolute best lab and diagnostic book I have found to date. If you don’t have it; get it, you wont regret it!
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