Lying in a pt medical record

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Why would a nurse [or medical professional] purposefully lie in a patient's medical record?

Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Police reports and witness statements are not necessarily "proof." People change their stories all the time.

If I had a dollar for each time a patient told hospital staff a different story than police I'd have retired years ago

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Specializes in None, going for L&D.

What's concerning is that the patient's story correlated with the police report and witness statements and the medical record goes completely against those. Regardless, I thought that blatantly lying on a patient's medical record had consequences. It doesn't matter what consequences are wanted. What matters is that it seems that medical records are not as important as everyone keeps tauting then to be.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

As we are heading into the ream of personal advice regardless on op saying hypothetically I am closing this thread. op you have had some good advice but you need to speak to the hospital concerned and deal with this face to face

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