Chapter I Introduction to the Course

Chapter II Collection Techniques

Chapter III Hematology Blood Tests

Chapter IV Special Serology and Blood Chemistry Tests

Chapter V Body Fluid Lab

Chapter VI: Select Organ Function Blood Tests

Chapter VII: STD and HIV Blood Tests

Chapter VIII: Arterial Blood GAS Interpretation

Chapter IX: Select Diagnostic Tests

References

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References

__________, Springhouse Handbook of Diagnostic Tests, 2nd edition, Springhouse Co., 1999.

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Buckingham, Alan, Arterial Blood Gases Made Simple, Nursing Life, Nov/Dec, 1994.

Diagnostic Tests Handbook, Springhouse, Penn.  Intermed Communications, 1994.

Fischbach, F., A Manual of Laboratory Diagnostic Tests, Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1998.

Kee, Joyce LeFever; Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1991.

Long and Phipps, Essentials of medical Surgical Nursing, Mosby Co, 1990.

Luckman, J., & Sorensen, K.C., Medical Surgical Nursing, 2nd ed., Philadelphia, Saunders, 1990.

Manual of Radiology Service, Wilmington Delaware, Veterans Administration Center, 1990.

Phipps, W.J., et. al., Schafer’s Medical-Surgical Nursing, St. Lousi, Mo., Mosby, 1991.

Wallach, Jacques, Handbook of Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests, Lippincott-Raven publishers, Philadelphia, 1998.

Whitehouse, W.M.,  (Ed.) The Yearbook of Diagnostic Radiology – 1991, Chicago, Year Book Med Publ, revised 1991.

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