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<i>For students in masters, baccalaureate, associate degree, diploma, and practical nursing programs- and for RNs and LPNs working in hospital settings. </i></p> <br> </p> <p><b><i>Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications</i></b> is designed to provide quick, pertinent information about laboratory and diagnostic testing, and the corresponding nursing implications. </p> <p>Author Joyce LeFever 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 <b>10th Edition</b>, 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. </p>