The method of charting that provides a continual description of a patient's condition, complaints, problems, assessment findings, activities, treatments,
and nursing care, along with the evaluations of effectiveness for each nursing intervention from admission through discharge, is known as
1. Charting by exception.
2. Focus charting.
3. Narrative charting.
4. SOAPIER (Subjective data, Objective data, Assessment data, Plan, Intervention, Evaluation, Revision) charting.
ANS: 3
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