A comprehensive, well-illustrated dictionary of key nursing terms, definitions, and abbreviations
A Doody's Core Title for 2017!
INCLUDES 24 VALUABLE APPENDICES AND HUNDREDS OF FULL-COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS!
Featuring more than 250 full-color illustrations, this pocket-sized dictionary allows readers to quickly and easily look up important nursing-related words and phrases. Carefully updated to include the latest terms, the content has been physician-reviewed to assure the most accurate coverage possible.
Along with clear, concise definitions, the fourth edition also includes 24 valuable appendices such as abbreviations used in prescriptions, food sources of vitamins, centigrade and fahrenheit scales, and normal values in urinalysis.
- Focuses on the most commonly used words and phrases
- More than 250 four-color illustrations -- most other pocket nursing dictionaries do not have any illustrations
- NEW TO THIS EDITION: 250 new entries; new appendices, including administration of medicine and normal hematological values; 65 new illustrations
- Also of value to allied health professionals outside of nursing, such as physician assistants and physical therapists