Author Question: You charted the following nursing note using black ink: 8:00 a.m. ate breakfast; 7:30 a.m. prn ... (Read 58 times)

oliviahorn72 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

You charted the following nursing note using black ink: 8:00 a.m. ate breakfast; 7:30 a.m. prn medication given for pain; 10:00 a.m. bathed. What is incorrect about this entry?

1. The prn medication should not have been recorded.
2. The recording of the information is not done sequentially.
3. Black ink is not the ink of choice for most institutions.
4. The charting should have included the client's name.

Question 2

You neglected to chart that you gave your client a prn medication. From a legal perspective, this implies which of the following?

1. that you did not give the medication
2. nothing (no legal implication), because the client did not suffer as a result of it
3. that you forgot to chart that you gave the medication
4. that quality assurance of the institution may be called into question