I too, designed my own forms a long time ago, and they have served me well. I also have accompanying liturature which works for me. I beat Healthy Futures to the punch many years ago, but... a requirement for developmental evaluation tools is that they have been validated. Thus Healthy Futures.
In all honesty, I could have probably just done a few for developmental screening, but I have done all of the developmental forms.
I have always put my developmental in social history and continue to do so. I know Jon put some development things in the ROS, that doesn't seem right to me but everyone is different.
I have uploaded these templates to the AC site.
It is an involved process.
Step one was extracting the data
Step two was formatting the data. I indented (2 spaces) the items under physical development, cognitive development, ect so that a NO could easily be placed indicating abnormal.
Step three was to look at the wording so that it was defaulted to yes or normal
Step four was to compare with my old developmental sheets and mix and match.
They are uploaded with the statement Based on But not Quite Bright Futures.
I still have to do the plan section. Not as worried about it. My old templates work OK. To be consistent with the handouts, it should probably be updated. I might get around to it at sometime. Like all of you, I too am busy seeing patients.
Huraibi, Please do not use all caps. It is the equivalent of shouting. You can always make your own templates by right clicking and hiting the ALT button at the same time and edit and save the text you would like. See Richard's note above. It takes time to learn how to use an EMR. You need to delegate and use checklists ahead and it will speed up the process.
It's fine to use other's templates, sometimes you just have to make your own.
Hope you all find my templates useful.
