Tag: Complete Blood Count (CBC)

Knowing the different normal lab values is an important step in making an informed clinical decision as a nurse.

Blood is the “river of life” that surges within us. It transports everything that must be carried from one place to another within the body- nutrients, wastes (headed for elimination from the body) and body heat through blood vessels. Long before modern medicine, blood was viewed as magical, because when it drained from the body, life departed as well.