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Where do nurse do the majority of their documentation for a patient? - CORRECT ANSWER:
Used to organize different types of documentation; seen as tabs within the activity; used to group
similar categories of documentation together. - CORRECT ANSWER: Template (Flowsheet
templates, Flowsheet tabs)
Each flowsheet template is a record in which master file? - CORRECT ANSWER: FLT master
file
Groups & Rows are records in which master file? - CORRECT ANSWER: FLO master file
Used to organize individual documentation flowsheet rows; appears as a darker row color/bold
font in the flowsheet activity. - CORRECT ANSWER: Group (Flowsheet Group)
Where data is documented; designed to hold specific data; appears as a lighter row color in the
flowsheet activity. - CORRECT ANSWER: Row (Flowsheet Row)
The administrators home menu when building flowsheets. - CORRECT ANSWER: Doc
Flowsheet Builder
Defines the purpose of a record. - CORRECT ANSWER: Row type
Row types: What are the nine (9) available row types? - CORRECT ANSWER: Acuity
Calculator
Charge Row
,Custom Formula
Data
Flowsheet Group
Infusion Group
Lines/Drains/Airways
Programming Point
Properties
Defines the type of information users can document in the row & how they should format it;
determined by the row type. - CORRECT ANSWER: Value type
Value types: What are the twelve (12) available value types? - CORRECT ANSWER: Blood
Pressure
Category Type
Custom List
Date; Height
Numeric Type
Patient Height
Patient Weight
String Type
Temperature
Time; Weight
Shows extra information about the flowsheet on the right side; min & max values, who
documented, etc. - CORRECT ANSWER: Details Report
To the left of the flowsheet; shows the available templates/tabs. - CORRECT ANSWER: Table
of Contents
,Where do you link rows to a group? - CORRECT ANSWER: Within the open group/row record
(in the doc flowsheet builder).
Where do you link groups to a template? - CORRECT ANSWER: Within the open template
record (in the doc flowsheet builder).
Where do you specify all the rows that should normally show up in a group by default? -
CORRECT ANSWER: The group form in a flowsheet group record.
How do you have groups added on a template that should not appear by default/added by
clinicians as needed? - CORRECT ANSWER: Start Removed (mark them as start removed).
Organizes similar groups together in the table of contents so clinicians can easily navigate to that
part of the flowsheet template. - CORRECT ANSWER: Topics
In what order should you build a flowsheet? - CORRECT ANSWER: From the bottom up, but
with a slight variation:
-at a high level, to build most flowsheet rows:
1. Create a placeholder flowsheet group record
2. Build all the rows to appear on the flowsheet (build row records & set the group as
"preferred")
3. Attach the rows to groups created in Step 1
4. Build the flowsheet template & attach groups to it
Where are all flowsheet records built, edited, & accessed? - CORRECT ANSWER: In
Hyperspace (in Flowsheets FLT & FLO)
How should you distinguish between groups and rows in the FLO record? - CORRECT
ANSWER: Preface all group record names with "G" and preface all row record names with "R."
, When building a basic flowsheet group (aka one not used for LDAs or med intake), what
category of Row Type should you use? - CORRECT ANSWER: A Row Type of Flowsheet
Group.
True or False. Updating the Row Type for a record can alter what you can or cannot do within it.
- CORRECT ANSWER: True
Explain the difference between Maximum/Minimum fields vs. Warning Maximum/Warning
Minimum fields. - CORRECT ANSWER: The max/min fields prevent impossible values from
being entered; the warning max/warning min fields help to alert clinicians of abnormal values.
A setting within a row record that indicates what group a row should be added to if the row is
added to a flowsheet on its own; does NOT add the row to the group, just says what group is
should appear in. - CORRECT ANSWER: Preferred group
What happens if the preferred group is left blank? - CORRECT ANSWER: Drops to the bottom
of the flowsheet in the OTHER group.
How do you LINK the rows into the group? - CORRECT ANSWER: After all rows are created,
you list them within the group record itself.
Because both rows & groups link out to groups, what build is most efficient? - CORRECT
ANSWER: Build groups first and add them as preferred groups when building rows.
What are the three (3) main records needed to build a flowsheet? - CORRECT ANSWER:
Flowsheet Row
Flowsheet Group
Flowsheet Template