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Specializes in Psychiatric Nurse (Intensive Treatment).

I’ve been seeing other people leaving longer comments in the flowsheets comments section and I’m getting frustrated because mine stops me at a really short character count. Usually I don’t need to leave a long note in flowsheets but there are times with the behavioral health section that a patients SI plan is longer than what the tiny box allows. If I can provide clarification please let me know. Thanks in advance!

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Specializes in Informatics, Critical Care, Case Management.

Hi, 

Have you tried typing f6 to write in the comments after hitting your character limit? 

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Specializes in ED, Informatics, Clinical Analyst.

I want to say there's like a 256 character limit for free text fields. I am not sure what it is for flowsheet comments. Character limits are universal so I don't know how other people would be able to leave longer comments than you (unless I am not reading that right). I would recommend using a note for longer comments. Flowsheet comments aren't displayed in a lot of reports, so they can be easy for others to miss. With a note, you also have the option to use SmartTools. Are you charting in flowsheets or another activity?

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