| MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, your professional responsibility for patientcare is likely to involve laboratory tests and other diagnostic procedures.Such involvement may include multiple aspects of preparing for the test,assisting during its course, and monitoring its effects. For example, youare often responsible for ensuring that patients are correctly prepared fortesting; for ensuring that tests are correctly ordered; for assisting the ex-aminer during the actual procedure; for supporting and reassuring thepatient during difficult or painful procedures; for quickly transmittingproperly prepared specimens to the laboratory in appropriate containers;for assisting with the monitoring of test results; for monitoring compli-cations during and after the test; and finally~ for providing appropriatepost-test care. To meet these responsibilities effectively, you need much more than asuperficial familiarity with any given test. You must have a ready sourceof fundamental information about the test itselfi why it is useful, how itis performed, how it is likely to affect the patient, and what the test resultsindicate. DIAGNOSTICS, another volume of the Nurse s Reference Libraryseries, provides this information in a comprehensive and readily accessibleform. This book is organized into five major sections that include virtually allavailable diagnostic tests, ranging from routine procedures, such as CBCand urinalysis, to the rarely used, most complex tests, such as the latestvariants of computerized tomography. Section I (chapters 1 through 11)presents tests that are performed on a blood sample. Section II (chapters12 through 17) presents tests that require a urine specimen. Section III(chapters 18 and 19) presents tests concerning histology, microbiology, andparisitology. Section IV (chapters 20 to 22) presents tests on body organs--the thyroid gland, the eye, and the ear. Section V (chapters 23 to 29)presents tests that evaluate structure and function of the body systems. Thefinal section (chapters 30 and 31) presents special tests, including skintests, tests for determining therapeutic, and toxic blood levels, and mis-cellaneous tests. " ,, Each chapter begins with an Introduction that summarizes generalinformation about the tests that follow, describing the relevant groups oftests, telling why they are useful, summarizing test methods, and providingsupplementary information, such Each individual test entry thatas anatomy and physiology.follows includes significant information |
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