What ids the most common charting error that nurses make? I've heard that failing to document care is the biggest problem. Is this accurate or are there other more common errors?

I have found that not dating and timing or the wrong date and time is a very common error.

I was taught "if it's not charted, it wasn't done"' as well. Too many nurses forget to chart or don't think it's necessary to chart everything. But, that can cause problems. I worked part-time, and was often given report by another part-time nurse. Details were lacking and nothing was mentioned in the chart.It could be very confusing, if no one could fill me in on what had been going on with the patient. This happened quite often. Family members would ask me questions and I would n't have a clue. Sometimes, patients weren't charted on for days at a time. It's always best to chart . That way you're covered, no matter what.

Charting is quite a problem with me because sometimes the people around you will beg for your time and then i lose my train of thought. i use paper and put everything down what i did, observe, comments or anything from then on. we are discouraged to do alot of overtime but charting atleast 6 medicares, 2 monthly summaries,2 MDS, incidents, behavior monitorings,abt's, lab works, etc. needs more than 2 hours of charting. you don't chart, you didn't do it so i tried my best to write things more specifically and concise.