The hospital nursing group has reviewed external standards of care to establish standards of care for a newly organized patient care unit. These external sources serve to set which level of standard of care?
1. Locality
2. Mutually acceptable
3. National
4. Worldwide
3
Rationale: External standards transcend individual practitioners and single institutions; therefore, they expand beyond locality and individual acceptance of care standards. Since they are set by state and federal organizations, they are only relevant to the society or country and are not worldwide standards.
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