Product Description: This pocket-sized, alphabetical reference provides concise, straightforward information regarding laboratory and diagnostic tests, including preparing clients for tests, perfoming tests, interpreting results and planning appropriate care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Packaged set includes: Application of Nursing Process and Nursing Diagnosis: An Interactive Text for Diagnostic Reasoning, 4th edition, c2003, listed in approval week 2003-16; and Nurse's Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and Rationales, 8th edition, c2002, listed in approval week 2002-19. Both softcover.

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Product Description: A report of the Ninth NANDA Conference, which focused on diagnosis and taxonomy issues. It includes relevant, clinically useful information covering all papers and presentations as well as accounts of the NANDA business meeting, committee reports and regional and special interest group meetings...read more

Product Description: Here is a convenient clinical companion for health assessment and physical examination. It is a practical reference tool to be used in clinical settings, not only for nursing students and faculty but also practicing professionals in the field and in continuing education settings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: An exploration of the thinking processes that lead to a nursing diagnosis. Numerous examples from all clinical fields, levels of care, care settings and patient types illustrate the cognitive process and assist with decision making for diagnosis and treatment...read more

Product Description: This new manual offers readers valuable practice in analyzing data and making effective clinical decisions. First, a section on Clinical Data explores the decision-making process, the health history, the physical examination, diagnostic tests, and herbal therapies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: DIAGNOSTIC TESTING AND NURSING IMPLICATIONS: A CASE STUDY APPROACH teaches nursing students how to use diagnostic tests in patient assessment and emphasizes their special role in the process. The book's body system organization, case studies with critical thinking questions, review questions, and a comprehensive practice test help student nurses understand diagnostic testing and apply their knowledge to clinical circumstances...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Everything you need to know about caring for patients—in one portable "must have" handbook!Often referred to as the "Merck Manual" for nurses by nurses, its quick access format makes it easy to find information on nearly 250 diseases and disorders...read more

Product Description: MOSBY'S EXPERT 10-MINUTE PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS helps nurses ensure rapid but thorough examinations of any patients they encounter, including the acutely ill.It gives complete, accurate, useful information nurses can use at the patient's bedside and improves nurses' examination skills...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This reference handbook provides quick, pertinent information on laboratory and diagnostic tests with nursing implications and client teaching. It is extremely user-friendly—laboratory and diagnostic tests are represented separately and organized in alphabetical order for easy location within the text. Emphasis on reference values and normal findings, descriptions, purposes, procedures, clinical problems and drug effects, factors affecting test results, nursing implications and client teaching. Data for diagnostic tests includes CT; MRI; various stress/exercise tests; bone density; colonoscopy; sigmiodoscopy; echocardiography, nuclear scans, ultrasonography and others. New laboratory and diagnostic tests include amyloid beta protein precursor (Alzheimer¿s Disease Markers), SARS, fetal nonstress test, pacemaker monitoring, sleep studies, sex chromatin mass, thoracoscopy and many more. Appropriate as a reference tool for physician assistants, laboratory technicians, and graduate nurses practicing in various clinical settings.

Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis [paperback] Carpenito, Lynda Juall [Apr 01, 1991]

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Product Description: Written by an all-nurse author team, "Health and Physical Assessment" presents a comprehensive approach to health assessment in which client health, rather than a diagnosis, is the focus. In this book, the client is perceived as a total entity, rather than as an individual with a specific problem that the practitioner must diagnose...read more