Lab value placement

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Can someone help me decide where the correct placement of these lab values belong on data collection sheets. Options are: Health promotion, Musculoskeletal, Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Urinary/reproductive, Endocrine, There are other slots but are obviously not acceptable.

Abnormal Red blood cell count 3.7g/dl --- Cardiovascular (where they reside), Urinary/reproductive (chemoreceptors determine amount made), or Musculoskeletal (where they are made).

Abnormal H/H 11.4/34.2--- Cardiovascular, Respiratory (Offloading carbon dioxide and oxygen uploading (COPD patient)), Musculoskeletal, Endocrine (Nitric oxide effect).

Abnormal BUN/Creatine 36/2.2--- Cardiovascular, Urinary/reproductive (Kidney malfunction) , Endocrine (latent diabetic effect (current glucose--97)), Gastrointestinal (Gi bleeding or high protein diet).

A1C indicated diabetic, Occult testing indicated blood in stool, (medical dx): COPD, CHF, Chronic Renal Failure, Hypothyroidism, Chronic Anemia.

The question: Is there standard placement for these values and where are they suppose to go?

Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
Thanks for the input this is just an FYI According to the instructor: RBCC is always Endocrine, H/H is almost always cardiovascular, and BUN/creatine are always Urinary/reproductive. This instruction would have been far more productive then me spending three hours thinking/researching and asking others for their input of the different places the data could go. UGH -15 points.[/quote']

So RBC and H&H go into separate categories?

Nursing has strange ways of doing things.

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