خرید و دانلود نسخه کامل کتاب Davis’s comprehensive manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests with nursing implications / Anne M. Van Leeuwen, Mickey Lynn Bladh – Original PDF

We hear every day from students and instructors that they want a laboratory and diagnostic test reference that will help them “connect the dots”—that will show them how to integrate laboratory and diagnostic test results into safe, compassionate, and effective nursing care. We have revised the ninth edition of the Handbook not only to be the comprehensive reference it was originally designed to be but also to provide improvements that more effectively answer that need. Highlights for this 9th edition include the following: • Providing a more portable product by maintaining a smaller size while making sure that each study stands on its own without repeating general information shared by most studies. • Renaming studies for wider recognition and faster location or to create broader topics for specific studies with multiple modes of analysis (e.g., Chlamydia Testing, rather than Chlamydia Group Antibody, IgG and IgM). • Combination of like studies under a single title to make them easier to find and to conserve space (e.g., CT, MRI, iron, hepatitis, therapeutic drug monitoring studies). We address over 620 tests under 322 individual titles. • Development of a more efficient design that places the “need to know” information at the beginning of each study. • Making the content more “visible” to the reader by presenting informa- tion in shorter statements, smaller paragraphs, and as tables and bulleted lists. • Introduction of a decision-making model that will assist in the integration of nursing process and clinical judgment at the point of care. One of the greatest challenges of becoming a nurse is in under- standing how to use nursing process in a practical way. Nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, plan, implementation, evaluation) is the gold standard by which generations of nurses have approached patient care. Over time other terms have been added to enhance the problem-solving process. Terms such as critical thinking (logical interpretation of raw data), clinical reasoning (use of assessment data to arrive at a nursing diagnosis and plan of care), and clinical judgment (combination of data analysis and intuitive thought) are additional concepts now imbedded within the nursing process purview. The concept of clinical judgment is a more recently integrated concept embracing both critical thinking and clinical reasoning to help students/instructors/nurses focus on patient management and related teaching/learning needs. Clinical judgment is a blend of factual and intuitive thought focused on specific patient problems as we ask the questions “what should I do in this situation and why.” Clinical judgment expands, grows, and improves exponentially with on the job experience. Information used to inform clinical judgment is gathered through the application of nursing process. In weaving the concept of clinical judgment throughout nursing process it is easy to see how it is used across the spectrum of patient care.