Assessment Diagnosis category: 110 books

Up-to-date and easy-to-navigate, A Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 10th Edition is the perfect point-of-care guide for nurses and health professionals caring for patients undergoing diagnostic tests and procedures.   Organized the way a nurse thinks—by specimen and function—this proven...

Promoting safe and effective nursing care, Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), 5th Edition standardizes the terminology and criteria needed to measure and evaluate outcomes that result from nursing interventions. Nearly 500 research-based nursing outcome labels— including 107** **that are NEW...

Lippincott Nursing Procedures, 7e, is a start-to-finish guide to more than 400 nursing procedures--from basic to advanced. This reference outlines every procedure, lists equipment, details each step, and includes rationales and cautions to ensure patient safety and positive outcomes. Concise, clear...

This unique book fills a void in radiology interpretation texts by encompassing the foundational tools and concepts of the full range of medical imaging, including radiology, the basics of interpretation of plain radiographs, comparison with other testing modalities, the rationale for selecting the...

Select nursing interventions with the book that standardizes nursing language! Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), 7th Edition provides a research-based clinical tool to help you choose appropriate interventions. It standardizes and defines the knowledge base for nursing practice as it communicates...

Nurses are required by law to report elder abuse even when it is suspected but not verified. This is the only research-based and clinically oriented text that applies what is known about different forms of elder abuse in domestic and long-term care settings to the everyday experiences of practicing...

Analysing arterial blood gases is a vital aspect of critical care. Yet many healthcare practitioners are uncertain how to interpret blood gases, and what actions they should take when they have identified alterations. Written by a Senior Lecturer in Critical Care, this easy-to-follow guide will help...

This helpful, practical book begins with a clear explanation of acid-base balance, followed by a straightforward six-step approach to arterial blood gas interpretation. The authors then apply this approach to a wide range of realistic case studies that resemble situations readers are likely to encounter...

EKG or ECG are both acronyms of the word electrocardiogram. An electrocardiogram records the electronic impulses in your heart. This way you can be checked for a murmur, possible heart attack or stroke. Viewing and studying a chart that shows all the different readings for each one can give you an...

This one-of-a-kind book delivers challenging, clinically relevant case-based learning tools regarding orthopedics and sports medicine for advanced practice nursing students and practitioners. Written by nurse practitioner/educators, it fills a gap in information and guidelines for treatment of this...

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Dieses Buch bietet alles zu kardiologischer und kardiochirurgischer Pflege – speziell auf die Arbeit der Pflegenden zugeschnitten. Das Plus: Autorenteam: bestehend aus Pflegenden und Medizinern Nachschlagewerk: Alle pflegerelevanten und medizinischen Informationen in einem Buch Basisgrundwissen: z.B. für alle neuen Mitarbeiter Spezialthemen: u.a. Herz-Lungenmaschine, IABP, Medikamente