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 supervi-sor countersign it.
c. Draw a line through the mistake and write "error" above it.
d. Have your supervisor make the chart cor-rection later.
ANS: C
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