Diagnostics - Nurse's Reference Library Author:Helen Klusek Hamilton (Editorial Director), Minnie Bowen Rose (Clinical Director) One of the 11 volumes in the Nurse's Reference Library series. Focus of this volume is on the diagnostic laboratory tests & procedures "organized into five major sections which include virtually all available diagnostic testing ranging from routine procedures...to the rarely used, most complex tests..." The book provides t... more »he necessary fundamental information [as of 1981] in a comprehensive and readily accessible form.
Each chapter begins with an Introduction; book also includes lists of the Advisory Board, Clinical Consultants, Contributors, and a Guide to Collection Techniques, color plates, Forward, Overview, Table of Contents, Appendices (Abbreviations, Units of Measure, Lab Test values, Guide to Color-top collection tubes, Guide to Reagent Test Strips, Photo Acknowledgements, & an Index. There are numerous black & white and color illustration, photographs, tables, graphs & line drawings.« less