one of my unit managers often requests that we rechart...that is, that a whole page of hand written nursing notes is distroyed and we re chart the page to make it include something that was not in an original chart entry. is this an ethical/legal practice. she will have the original nurses copy the original notes ...then add something she thinks was not clear or missing in an entry rather than having a late entry or addendum. notes that do not directly pretain to the entry to be altered are coppied as they originaly were. I work in long term care/ rehab .