Davis's Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications

"Nursing students and instructors need a laboratory and diagnostic test reference that will help them integrate laboratory and diagnostic test results into safe, compassionate, and effective nursing care. This eleventh edition of the manual not only serves as the comprehensive reference it was originally designed to be but also provides improvements that more effectively answer that need. Our manual covers 22 different laboratory and diagnostic study types, addressing more than 700 study findings in 300 individual titles. This book is written to help health-care providers in their understanding and interpretation of laboratory and diagnostic procedures and their outcomes. Just as important, it is dedicated to all health-care professionals who experience the wonders in the science of laboratory and diagnostic testing, performed and interpreted in a caring and efficient manner"--