I was able to take them on time. Otherwise I battle with my conscience about what to write down: the actual times I got the vitals, or when I was supposed to take them. It’s another nursing no-win. We shouldn’t lie when documenting, but there’s the not-able-to-be-two-places-at-once problem, which can make accurate charting ethically complicated. If I falsify records in small ways I worry I will end up being too comfortable with the idea of little, victimless lies. I don’t want to get used to fudging records even for something as relatively trivial as this.
