A patient comes into a small community hospital emergency department with a severely lacerated hand
After appropriate treatment, the patient receives nursing care based upon documented standards of care so that the hand will function well with minimal scarring. This standard of practice would be considered a(n): 1. National norm.
2. Internal standard.
3. External standard.
4. Regional norm.
National norm
Rationale: National standards of care are based on reasonableness and are the average degree of skill, care, and diligence exercised by members of the same profession. Such national standards mean that nurses in all settings, urban and rural, must meet the same standards when caring for patients in clinical settings. National standards of care have slowly replaced the previously used regional or locality standard of care, which allowed the standard of care to be viewed from the perspective of care within a given geographical area or "similar community.". The only way of knowing if this practice is an internal standard would be to review the community hospital's policy and procedure manual. The only way of knowing if this practice is an external standard would be to review published materials regarding the care of the patient with a severely lacerated hand.
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