Question about "unchart" options

KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN · Dec 1, 2017

It is a question to your IT department, but in majority of EMR programs such event would be marked as "was changed by (user) (date time)". Usually only the last checked option is saved and archived, so after all it is known who and when changed it but not why and what was charted first. The latter thing sometimes be recovered as well but it would take quite drastic measures.

In short: if you can use this option, it is OK to do so.

klone, MSN, RN · Dec 1, 2017

It absolutely does not go away. There are digital footprints, and often you can find the original comments if IT were to dig far enough. At the very least, it will show that documentation was changed, when, and by whom.

Davey Do · Dec 2, 2017

Makes me long for the old days when we made a mistake, we just erased our pencil marks or used White Out on our enrties in ink.

Orion81RN · Dec 2, 2017

I work private duty and the mom was watching Judge Mathis. We do paper charting, and I was charting that the plan was for the pt to return to school Monday (after being sick.) Instead, with Judge Mathis in my ear, I charted she was returning to jail. All I could do was put one line through it. I wish I could unchart that.

caliotter3 · Dec 2, 2017

I work private duty and the mom was watching Judge Mathis. We do paper charting, and I was charting that the plan was for the pt to return to school Monday (after being sick.) Instead, with Judge Mathis in my ear, I charted she was returning to jail. All I could do was put one line through it. I wish I could unchart that.

You should have been able to add a reference to Judge Mathis or someone reading this might think you were making a Freudian slip!