You can enter treatment exercises during an appointment or in advance to prepare for a patient's appointment.
- Open the NTS Rapid Flowsheet Worklog template, and then select an appointment row in the grid.
The
Rapid Flowsheet template opens. The patient’s name, sex, and birthdate appear in the panel headers. The
Treatment panel displays a compact view of the grids from the
NTS Treatment template.
Note: Based on your configuration, the grid may automatically display the treatment exercises from the last visit so that you can continue with those exercises.
- Do one of the following:
- To change an existing treatment, select a row in the grid, and then update the fields you want to change.
- To add a treatment, continue to the next step.
- In Category, select a type of treatment activity: TE (Therapeutic Exercise), TA (Therapeutic activity), NR (Neuro-muscular re-education), MT (Manual Therapy), or GT (Gait-training Therapy).
Your selection determines which additional fields become available.
- Select a body part. If you do not select one, the Body Part column in the grid automatically displays "Other" when the treatment is saved to the grid.
Note: To facilitate faster data entry, the selected Body Part and Body Part values remain in the fields until you change them.
- In Exercise Activity/Item, do one of the following:
- Select a therapy from the list for the selected body part.
- Select the blank option in the list, and then manually enter an activity or item.
A check mark appears in the D checkbox.
- Select the Reps, Sets, and Resistance as appropriate.
- For Side, indicate the side that the treatment is performed on by entering R for right side, L for left side, or B for both.
- If you are performing the treatment or exercise today, make sure that the D checkbox is selected.
- If the exercise or treatment is done in a group or as part of a home exercise program, select the Grp or HEP checkbox, respectively.
- Do one of the following:
- To update the activity or item exercise with your changes, select Update.
- To save the new exercise activity or item to the grid, select Add.
- Enter treatment comments by using one or more of the following methods:
- Type comments.
- Select Copy to copy comments from the patient's last visit.
- Add saved text from My Phrases.
- Do one of the following:
- If the appointment status is Booked and you are done entering data for now, select Save & Close.
- If you want to enter SOAP comments, expand the Additional Comments panel.
- If you are finished with the documentation, finalize and send the flowsheet data to the chart. Finalizing is a one-time action.
