Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications

For students in masters, baccalaureate, associate degree, diploma, and practical nursing programs, and for RNs and LPNs working in hospital settings.

Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, Tenth Edition, brings together current information on modern laboratory and diagnostic tests with their corresponding nursing implications. For each test, it presents reference values/normal findings, descriptions, purpose(s), clinical problems, procedures, factors affecting results, and nursing implications with rationales, including client teaching.