Selected as a Doody s Core Title for 2022 Publisher s Note Confidently interpret test results throughout your nursing curriculum in clinicals and in practice Designed to accompany Brunner Suddarth s Textbook for Medical Surgical Nursing 14th Edition this concise portable full color handbook gives you quick access to hundreds of test results and their implications for nursing Easily review specimen collection procedures and access a concise alphabetical list of nearly 300 tests and their implications Find the information you need fast for each test Reference values critical values and or normal findingsAbnormal findings with associated nursing implicationsPurpose and descriptionInterfering factorsNursing considerations for patient care before during and or after the tes Confidently address priority care issues and potentially hazardous or life threatening situations with clearly identified best practices and warnings Locate presentations of diseases disorders measurements testing equipment and examples of results at a glance in figures tables and boxes