What Is the Correct Order of the Four Important Aspects

question 14

Multiple Choice

What is the correct order of the four important aspects of charting that a nurse should remember when documenting client care to ensure that accurate and complete information about their client is recorded?

• A) timely, accurate, legible, and factual
• B) legible, factual, timely, and accurate
• C) factual, legible, accurate, and timely
• D) accurate, timely, legible, and factual

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Definitions:

Confounding Variable

An outside influence that changes the effect of a dependent and independent variable. This extraneous influence is used to influence the outcome of an experimental design.

Volunteer Bias

A shortcoming of findings derived from a sample of volunteers instead of a representative sample; the volunteers may differ from those who did not volunteer.

Experimenter's Bias

A form of bias introduced by the experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants.

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.