physioex

Thank you to all for your input. She merely just documented her initials before her actual assessment on the flow sheet. She never falsified assessments, vitals signs, care given, etc. She didn't steal, lie, kill, or neglect her patient. I agree that a warning would have sufficed and it does put her integrity into question. Since she was in orientation, no one really knew of her integrity, I guess. I think her preceptor should have said something to her as she checked her documentation, but she really didn't think of it as falsifying documentation.

I know of a nurse who put her initials on a flow sheet for her entire shift ahead of time. She was in orientation and was never told by preceptor or coworkers that this constituted falsification of documentation. She was terminated for doing it on 3 occasions. She never falsified assessments, v/s, outcomes, plans of care, only initialed her flowsheet for her entire shift before it was actually that time. She'd been complaining of coworkers being viscious, making false accusations, and tattle telling about non-nursing related matters. She'd had felt like she was being watched closely to get fired and now it came true!! Can she really be terminated for this? Is this really falsification if she did the actually charting at the real time, but only initialed ahead of time?