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