Part of the skill of nursing and healthcare involves being able to decipher and understand the meanings of results and abbreviations. Fully updated, this second edition is a handy survival guide which will supply you with up-to-date information and help you understand this language, so that you can provide appropriate holistic care to your patients.
Introduction
Abbreviations and acronyms
Conventional units of measurement
Normal Ranges:
Cardiovascular: Pulse Sites
Blood pressure stages
Biochemistry
Blood composition: Coagulation screen
Cardiac Enzymes
Hormone levels
Respiratory: Respiration rates
Tidal Volumes
Arterial Blood Gases
Acid Base Balance
Peak Flow readings
Neurological: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
Renal: Urinalysis
Fluid Balance
Nutritional assessment: MUST
Patient at Risk Scores: NEWS
PEWS
Skin assessment: WATERLOW
