Topics About 'Lab Values'.

So I know that we need to know our lab values and the normal ranges, etc. I was told that on the NCLEX, an abnormal value will usually be obvious...not like .-something or a couple of numeric values above or under the norm. I am making lab value note...

Help! I am so upset, frantic, that I cannot remember 6 lab values for a test on Monday. I can usually remember things, but I guess numbers is not one of them. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it easy to remember numbers for these? I studied ...

I really have to brush up on my lab values. I have a page full that I have to know. So what I'm going to do is make flash cards to study but I need to know how to put this together with the Diagnosis. Can someone help explain this too me. I was study...

Alright im starting to have a HUGE problem with this I memorize a lab value, and then talk to someone who says its different. Look it up online, and the values listed online are WAY different than in the text books. Example In the Saunders book it sa...

How am I suppose to study lab values for the NCLEX when lab values can change in different labs??? i.e. one book says Lipase is 0-110 an another says its 40-375 and for amylase one says 45-200 while another says 30-110....these are big differences! S...

Hi, I just had a quick lab value question that has been bothering me! In regards to PT/INR, what exactly does INR indicate? Also, what nursing considerations are important regarding a high or low INR value? I know that it represents a standardized va...

In my preparation for my second attempt to pass the NCLEX-RN, I'd like to ask any of you if you know of a site or maybe you have created one on commonly asked lab values on the exam. Signs and symptoms, as well as reasoning behind the lab value, and ...

I noticed that EVERY single book will give a different number for normal lab values. Whether it's electrolytes, CBC, cholesterol, etc etc. Also numbers such as normal urine output, amounts of sleep for kids at certain ages, healing times, and how muc...

Hi all! Hopefully I will be starting NS this July, and I wanted to study Med. Term., and lab values. I have no idea which lab values to study! There are so many! Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so much for any input you're able to give!

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share the good (and late) news that I passed my Hesi Exit V1 exam on the first try back in June (score of 936)!! I was very worried about it because I'm not one of those students that does awesomely on NCLEX-style quest...

How do you memorize lab values? Any tips???

I think we need some clarification here and I've found that an internet search produces mixed/unreliable results. I'm talking about how we do lab notations. I've seen what I thought were basic lab skeletons done in ways that I thought was all wrong o...

Hi everyone, I know there is a lab value sheet floating around AN. In fact, I am pretty sure I have it downloaded already. Still, I am curious if anyone out there knows of the most accurate data base or source for actual "normal" values/limits that w...

Hi, all - I will be taking my nursing competence assessment in Halifax in a few days (I'm so old that my BSN program in the States didn't have good syllabi for my NNAS score) - and I'm getting confused on the different lab values between the US and ...

Hello, I'm looking or assistance with understanding the INR and PT lab values for a care plan I'm doing. From what I'm reading the INR and PT should both go up and down in correlation with the other. Is this not true? The lab values I had for this pa...

I am really looking for a lab values worksheet to take to clinicals with me so that I don't have to fill in all the names=saving time so I'm not awake till 5am. Does anyone have one from their nursing program they could send me? I need a list of like...

I have noticed that people write lab results in a "tree" or diagram format, not needing to put in what lab is what. Anyone have a copy of that as a "key" so that I can learn how to use that "tree" thingy and write my labs like that? I've tried to goo...