Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications, 10th Edition

For students in masters, baccalaureate, associate degree, diploma, and practical nursing programs � and for RNs and LPNs working in hospital settings.\n\nEverything students and practicing nurses need to know about laboratory and diagnostic testing, with an emphasis on nursing implications and patient education. Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications is designed to provide quick, pertinent information about laboratory and diagnostic testing, and the corresponding nursing implications. Author Joyce Le Fever Kee discusses each test in the context of seven subsections: Reference Values/Normal Findings (for children and adults), Description, Purpose, Clinical Problems, Procedure, Factors Affecting Laboratory or Diagnostic Results, and Nursing Implications with Rationale and Client Teaching. In the 10th Edition, you�ll find new, rewritten, or updated coverage of dozens of tests; new Situational Study Questions; an updated section on Therapeutic Drug Monitoring that includes HIV drugs; and revised appendices addressing everything from abbreviations to test values.Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications 10th Edition is written by Joyce Le Fever Kee and published by Pearson. ISBNs for Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications are 9780134709109, 0134709101 and the print ISBNs are 9780134704463, 0134704460. Additional ISBNs include 9780134715346.