Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary - Revised Reprint Hardcover - 2005

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* Full color design helps illustrate and clarify definitions.
* Definitions cover all areas of nursing, medicine, and allied health.
* Thoroughly reviewed by more than 100 specialists in all areas of nursing, medicine, and allied health.
* The practical, strict alphabetical organization with no subentries (a la Webster's) makes it easier to find entries.
* Drug entries include all key drugs released since 1995.
* Hundreds of lab test definitions explain the purpose, procedures, and expected outcomes of key lab tests.
* Pronunciations for key entries.
* Includes eponyms for most entries.
* Easy to read large type size.
* Color Atlas of Human Anatomy contains high quality, full-color, labeled drawings of all body systems.
* Approximately 2,200 color photographs and line drawings
* Also includes lists of tables and illustrations in the front matter, List of appendixes on the front end sheets, and thumb-indexing * Nursing diagnosis entries reflect changes in terminology and the new taxonomy approved for 2001-2002; subheadings and related factors have been added to these definitions.
* Definitions have been added for all current NIC (Nursing Interventions Classifications) interventions and NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classifications) outcomes.
* Appendixes include alternative therapies; new nutritional info; drug information; the manual alphabet; poison centers; key organization contact information, including Internet resources; Nursing Outcomes Classification; Nursing Interventions Classification; NANDA; and the Omaha Systems Classification.