After Completing the Client Care and Documenting It in the Progress

Multiple Choice

After completing the client care and documenting it in the progress notes,the nurse realizes that documentation was placed on the wrong medical record.What should the nurse do?

A) Use white-out over the mistake.
B) Take a wide permanent marker and blacken out all the documentation.
C) Put an "X" through the entire page,identify it as an "error," initial,and move on to the correct chart.
D) Draw a single line through the documentation,write "mistaken entry" next to the original entry,and initial it.