I have performed the 11am fingersticks on the ACCUchecks at General many of times, always following the same procedure. Last week I did perform fingersticks on both of my patients, got their reading and recorded it. Mr K did not watch me on that particular day, however he has in the past and saw I know how to do it.I do understand the significance of not performing the fingerstick, doing it wrong and of course documenting a false result. I can not say enough that I would absolutely never do any of those things. First of all, I obviously know the seriousness of not doing the fingerstick and giving any result and how it could affect the patient. If I was not sure on how to perform the test I would have just asked my instructor. I was all gowned up in contact isolation, Mr K. gave me the ACCUcheck and I performed the fingersticks. In all honestly there would be no point in me being in there, ready to go, having the machiene and then just not doing it. There is also no way to really mess it up. Right after you apply the correct amount of blood for the sample the result comes up. Even though it is not really accurate coming from the patients now, the one did ask me her result and I told her. There is just not any reason I could think of for me not to do it. On top of that, the floor is not always that busy around that time and I look forward to doing the fingersticks. Along with everyone else I do not understand how my results were not saved or found in anyway. I completely understand where the hospital is coming from but of course I don’t find it very fair. It’s a shame because my whole clinical group sees the staff do things wrong all the time and although we do not follow in their footsteps it always aggravates me thinking someone I know could be a patient why they do the same negative things; therefore, I would not do something so wrong to another patient. 