During clinical 3/16/11, I had witnessed Danny\'s physical assessment skills on the patient he was caring for.  At 10:30, he brought his note for me to review prior to putting it in the chart. In his note, he had written that the patient was having abdominal pain on the left side with extension of his leg(which he did not have while I witnessed the assessment). I asked him to elaborate on the pain assessment by asking him :what was the quality of the pain and on a scale of one to ten, how severe is the pain.  Danny answered me that the patient was having a sharp stabbing pain 7/10.  I asked him if he reported his findings to anyone and he said no.  At this time, I felt it necessary to go into the patients room with Danny to reassess his pain.  I said to the patient,\" I hear you are having belly pain.\" The patient responded,  \"no\".  I then said, \"you are not having a sharp stabbing pain in your belly that you rated a 7/10\"?  The patient smiled and said,\"no\".  Then Danny said to the patient,\"remember you told me your pain was a 7/10 when you extend your leg\".  The patient said , \" not unless I was dreaming when I said that\".The patient stated he showed Danny his ecchymotic areas on his stomach from his Lovenox injections but never said anything about pain.  Danny and I walked out of the room and I asked Danny if his contention was that the  assessment was still as he initially stated to me.  He said yes.  I then told him he had only one chance to be truthful with me and \"come clean\".  He did then admit to making up the quality and severity of the pain.  We discussed at length the severity of falsification of records and possible repercussions of lying in a health care environment.