How are critical pathways and standardized nursing care plans similar? Both:
1) Specify daily, or even hourly, outcomes and interventions.
2) Prescribe minimal care needed to meet recommended lengths of stay.
3) Describe care common to all patients with a certain condition or situation.
4) Emphasize medical problems and interventions.
ANS: 3
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