Focus on Adult Health’s Handbook of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests

This companion book to Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing is a concise, portable, full-color handbook of hundreds of test results and their implications. The two-part presentation includes a review of specimen collection procedures followed by an alphabetical list of tests. Tests include important information about reference values, normal and abnormal values as well as associated nursing implications, interfering factors, and essential nursing considerations before, during, and after the test. Review "This concise handbook is consistently formatted and easy to use; the pages turn easily and it will stay open while lying on a flat surface."Doody's Reviews Louise T. Robley, MS, BSN, RN-BC(University of Oklahoma College of Nursing) Product Details Paperback: 576 pages Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (January 30, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1451173180 ISBN-13: 978-1451173185 ISBN-13: 9781451173185 eText ISBN: 9781451175424