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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 with Nursing Implications is designed to provide quick, pertinent information about laboratory and diagnostic testing, and the corresponding nursing implications. 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 10th Edition, 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.

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Joyce LeFever Kee received her bachelor of science and master of science in nursing degrees from the University of Maryland, and earned 36 postgraduate credits from the University of Delaware. She was an instructor at the University of Maryland for four years and later spent 27 years at the University of Delaware – first as an instructor, and then as an associate professor. While there, she taught undergraduate- and graduate-level pharmacology, pathophysiology, fluid and electrolyte imbalances, and medical-surgical nursing in classroom and clinical settings. She retired as Associate Professor Emerita from the University of Delaware.

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