After completing the client care and documenting it in the progress notes, the nursing student discovered he had written in the wrong chart. The correct action is to:
1. Use white-out over the mistake.
2. Take a wide permanent marker and blacken out all the documentation.
3. Put an "X" through the entire page, identify it as an "error," initial, and move on to the correct chart.
4. Draw a single line through the documentation, write "mistaken entry" next to the original entry, and initial it.
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Erasure, blotting out, or correction fluid should not be used.
Rationale 2: Erasure, blotting out, or correction fluid should not be used.
Rationale 3: When a mistake is recorded The correction applies to only the erroneous information not the entire page.
Rationale 4: When a mistake is recorded, a line should be drawn through it and the words "mistaken entry" written above or next to the original entry, then initial or signature–whichever is agency policy. The original entry must remain visible.
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