The nurse is charting medications before providing them to a client. This practice:
a. assures that the nurse will not forget to chart them.
b. is a good idea so other nurses do not come behind the nurse and repeat the medication.
c. constitutes a documentation error.
d. is the accepted method of charting with electronic documentation systems.
ANS: C
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