You use flow sheets for documentation of both medical and nursing orders, and any significant or abnormal client findings you chart in the progress notes. Which type of charting is your health care facility using?
1. charting by exception
2. APIE (Assessment, Problem Identification, Interventions, Evaluation)
3. PIE (Problem identification, Interventions, Evaluation)
4. SOAP (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan)
ANS: 1
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