Methods to change many treatment tasks or workflow tasks in a flowsheet
SmartFlow has different methods that you can use to to change the treatments of a patient's flowsheet. For example, if emergency surgery for a patient is necessary, you can change all of their treatments.
To change many treatments of a flowsheet, use one these flowsheet buttons:
- ADD WORKFLOW
- ADD TREATMENTS
- CHANGE TEMPLATE
This table gives each button and its function:
| Button | Function | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| CHANGE TEMPLATE | Select CHANGE TEMPLATE to add treatment tasks and workflow tasks to a patient's flowsheet. Note: For example, a patient is in your clinic for general care. The patient's flowsheet has a set of treatments and workflow tasks for general care. Emergency surgery then becomes necessary for the patient. As a result, a staff member must stop the general care treatments and workflow tasks and start the emergency surgery treatments and workflow tasks. | Change all treatment tasks and workflow tasks of a flowsheet |
| ADD WORKFLOW | Select ADD WORKFLOW to add only workflow tasks to a patient's flowsheet. | Not applicable |
| ADD TREATMENTS | Select ADD TREATMENTS to add only treatment tasks to a patient's flowsheet. Note: For example, a has diabetes treatments recorded in their flowsheet. To keep the set of treatments but to add new treatments to the set, select ADD TREATMENTS, then select Add. | Not applicable |
After you select one of the buttons, then select a new template, you can:
- Select Add to keep the previous flowsheet tasks
- Select Merge to keep applicable flowsheet tasks when the new template has the same task
- Select Replace to remove the previous flowsheet tasks