If You Make a Mistake When Charting a Patient Treatment

question 8

Multiple Choice

If you make a mistake when charting a patient treatment, what should you do?

• A) Make a new entry (called "correction") just below the mistake.
• B) Erase the mistake and have your supervisor countersign it.
• C) Draw a line through the mistake and write "error" above it.
• D) Have your supervisor make the chart correction later.