Risks and Strengths can be recorded in Intake and Progress Notes, Treatment Plans, and Discharge Notes. You can also set it up to appear in any order in any note or report. Risks and Strengths consists of three sub-sections: Risk Factors, Strengths/Weaknesses, Leisure and Interests.
Risk Factors
You can document risk levels in the areas of Suicide, Violence, Substance Abuse, Psychosis, and HIV. You can also add your own risk factors to track. Select risk factor to address by clicking it in the risk factors list. For Suicide and Violence, enter risk severity (e.g. High, Moderate) and type (e.g. Ideation., Plan, etc). For other risk factors, enter risk severity. You can enter a narrative statement in the details text box for each.
Note: In order to track suicide and violence risks for the Quality Assessment Report, you will need to address these risks in the Risks/Strengths section at Intake and at Discharge. Suicide and violence risks are addressed in the section labeled Plan, in the Risk Management tab for Progress Notes.
Add your own Risk Factors
You can add any number of user-defined risk factors to track. New risk factors are global and apply to all patients. If you are using QuicDoc on a network the setup for user defined risks should be assigned to the System Administrator or to one individual only.
To add a risk factor
| • | Click Add Risk Factor on the Risks screen. |
| • | Enter a name (e.g. Poverty). |
| • | Click OK. |
To remove a risk factor
| • | Select it from the Risk Factors list on the Risks screen. |
| • | Click Remove Risk Factor (blue underlined text). Removing risk factors only applies to user-defined risk factors. |
Strengths and Weaknesses
Select strengths from the drop-down list, or type in your own, and click OK. Strengths appear in the list below.
To Edit list - If you have access rights, click 
to edit the strengths pick list.
To Delete - To delete a strength, select it from the list and press the Delete key or drag and drop into the trashcan.
Weaknesses
Enter Weaknesses in the text box provided.
Leisure and Interests
Use the text boxes provided to enter information on the patient's interests and leisure activities.
Spell Check
Select File... Spell Check to spell check your entries. The Spell Check checks the active text box or the text box in which you place your mouse cursor. Move the cursor to each text filed you wish to check.
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