After Completing the Clinical and Documenting in the Progress Notes

question 16

Multiple Choice

After completing the clinical and documenting in the progress notes, the nursing student discovered he had written in the wrong chart. The correct action is to:

• A) take a wide permanent marker and blacken out all the documentation.
• B) draw a single line through the documentation, write "mistaken entry" next to the original entry, and initial it.
• C) put an "X" through the entire page, identify it as an "error" initial it, and move on to the correct chart.
• D) use white-out over the mistake.

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