While giving a shift report on your assigned client, you realize that you forgot to record a nursing procedure done on your client. Which of the following methods of documentation would be best on your part?

A.    Write the procedure between the two lines of your shift documentation closest to the occurrence.
B.    Find a blank space in your earlier charting, and chart the procedure in that space.
C.    Tell the oncoming nurse to chart the procedure for you and to cite the time it was done.
D.    Chart the current date and time and "Late entry," indicating when and what was done.

Ans:  D