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About flowsheets

Use a flowsheet to record treatment that you give to a patient and monitor a patient's vitals. A patient must have a flowsheet for each day that they are admitted.

Use a flowsheet to record the treatment that you give to the patient. After you add a treatment to the flowsheet, the flowsheet shows:
  • The name of the treatment
  • The scheduled treatment tasks of the patient
Note: After you add a treatment to a flowsheet, you cannot change the name of the treatment. For example, if you added the incorrect treatment, you cannot change the name of the treatment. You must:
  1. Stop the incorrect treatment
  2. Add the correct treatment
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.

In a flowsheet, you can also add notes and other tasks applicable to the patient's treatment.

Edit mode

Change a flowsheet to edit mode to:
  • Change the flowsheet template
  • Add treatments
  • Add medications
  • Add tasks
  • Add, remove, or change parameters

To change a flowsheet to edit mode, select the pencil button in the upper-right corner.

Note: Make sure that the flowsheet shows the correct day before you change it to edit mode.
Figure 1. The pencil button on a flowsheet
The pencil button on a flowsheet

To change a flowsheet back from edit mode, select the save button in the upper-right corner.