About flowsheets
Use a flowsheet to schedule and record treatment that you give to a patient and to monitor a patient's vitals. A patient must have a flowsheet for each day that they stay at your clinic.
A patient's flowsheet shows:
- All scheduled treatments for the patient
- The time of each scheduled treatment task
- The time that staff completed each treatment task
- Patient information (for example, patient weight and age)
- The date
- A control bar that contains buttons that let you use the flowsheet
- Notes that have more information about the patient
- Scheduled workflow tasks (for example, take the patient for a walk)
Note: Flowsheets do not show a patient's preoperative and intraoperative medication. If necessary, you can add parameters for the medication to a flowsheet manually and add the applicable information in a note.
Flowsheets and treatment tasks
When you add a treatment to a flowsheet, you can schedule treatment tasks. Use treatment tasks to identify when staff must complete the related treatment.
SmartFlow shows a specified color to identify a scheduled treatment task. When you complete a task, you record information about the treatment. After you complete the task, the cell of the treatment task shows what you recorded. For example, the cell can show:
- Your initials
- Numerical values
- Standard information that a practice manager configured (for example, pulse quality information)
Note: When you schedule treatment tasks, you can set the color that SmartFlow uses to identify the tasks.