INP402 EPICCARE UPDATED EXAM STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Select this check box to allow users to view or copy data in this row from a previous
encounter into the current one. - ✔✔Cross Encounter
✔✔Include instructions for your end users on how to document in this row; information
here appears in the Details report in the Flowsheets activity. - ✔✔Row information
✔✔Section where you specify the condition triggering the cascade. - ✔✔Top table of
the Cascading Flowsheet
✔✔Section where you list the groups or rows that should appear when the cascade is
triggered as well as method in which they will appear (automatically or prompted) -
✔✔Bottom table of the Cascading Flowsheet
✔✔The logical operator to determine if cascading rows are triggered. - ✔✔Comparison
Operator (equal, greater than, greater than or equal, less than, less than or equal, not
equal)
✔✔Free text field; not case sensitive. - ✔✔Comparison Value
✔✔If you build a custom list with abbreviations, how should you list the value in the
comparison value section? - ✔✔As the abbreviation.
✔✔Specifies how the system should determine a cascade trigger. - ✔✔Evaluation Logic
✔✔If you have 3 conditions listed & want cascade to trigger if either both lines 1 & 2 are
true or if line 3 is true, what (& where) would you enter? - ✔✔"(1 AND 2) OR 3" -
entered after choosing Custom Evaluation Logic button in the Cascading Flowsheet
section
✔✔What is the Clinical Documentation install team primarily responsible for? -
✔✔Flowsheets
The Work List
Care Plans
Patient Education
✔✔The process in which decisions about build are finalized, implemented in build, &
validated by stakeholders. - ✔✔Clinical Content Build Out (CCBO)
✔✔Epic's Foundation System clinical content is evidence-based. - ✔✔False
, ✔✔A method of clinical documentation where providers record only the values outside
the facility-defined normal limits. - ✔✔Charting to a definition
✔✔True or False: cascading rows always appear in the order they are attached to the
flowsheet template record, regardless of how the end user cascades them onto the
flowsheet. - ✔✔True
✔✔The row that causes the cascade to occur. - ✔✔Trigger row
✔✔A numeric scale representative of a nursing assessment and used as a tool to
determine future intervention (exs: Braden, GCS) - ✔✔Calculated assessment scale
✔✔A row configured to generate a charge; can be done as the end user is documenting
in flowsheet; choose it as the row type. - ✔✔Charge row
✔✔How do you associate a numerical value with the choices in a custom list row? -
✔✔Enter a number as the Abbreviation for the custom list value.
✔✔When building a row that files a charge, in which field can you specify how often the
charge(s) should be filed? - ✔✔Charge trigger type
✔✔The number of charges this row should generate when a value is entered; the
default is zero for this field, so if you leave it blank, there will be nothing generated. -
✔✔Charge quantity
✔✔Record IDs in a custom formula are formatted/identified in what way? - ✔✔Denoted
by braces
✔✔How do you make custom formula rows default to a certain number if the values are
not defined? - ✔✔Use 2 semicolons to seperate the record ID from a default value (ex:
{record ID;;0}).
✔✔In what units is weight, height, & temperature stored in Epic? - ✔✔weight- in ounces
height- in inches
temperature- in Fahrenheit
✔✔To enter values for diastolic blood pressure, what formula would you use? -
✔✔{blood pressure row ID number;D}
✔✔How is mean arterial pressure stored in Epic? - ✔✔{5;D}+({5;S}-{5;D})/3 (where '5' is
the Foundation record ID number)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Select this check box to allow users to view or copy data in this row from a previous
encounter into the current one. - ✔✔Cross Encounter
✔✔Include instructions for your end users on how to document in this row; information
here appears in the Details report in the Flowsheets activity. - ✔✔Row information
✔✔Section where you specify the condition triggering the cascade. - ✔✔Top table of
the Cascading Flowsheet
✔✔Section where you list the groups or rows that should appear when the cascade is
triggered as well as method in which they will appear (automatically or prompted) -
✔✔Bottom table of the Cascading Flowsheet
✔✔The logical operator to determine if cascading rows are triggered. - ✔✔Comparison
Operator (equal, greater than, greater than or equal, less than, less than or equal, not
equal)
✔✔Free text field; not case sensitive. - ✔✔Comparison Value
✔✔If you build a custom list with abbreviations, how should you list the value in the
comparison value section? - ✔✔As the abbreviation.
✔✔Specifies how the system should determine a cascade trigger. - ✔✔Evaluation Logic
✔✔If you have 3 conditions listed & want cascade to trigger if either both lines 1 & 2 are
true or if line 3 is true, what (& where) would you enter? - ✔✔"(1 AND 2) OR 3" -
entered after choosing Custom Evaluation Logic button in the Cascading Flowsheet
section
✔✔What is the Clinical Documentation install team primarily responsible for? -
✔✔Flowsheets
The Work List
Care Plans
Patient Education
✔✔The process in which decisions about build are finalized, implemented in build, &
validated by stakeholders. - ✔✔Clinical Content Build Out (CCBO)
✔✔Epic's Foundation System clinical content is evidence-based. - ✔✔False
, ✔✔A method of clinical documentation where providers record only the values outside
the facility-defined normal limits. - ✔✔Charting to a definition
✔✔True or False: cascading rows always appear in the order they are attached to the
flowsheet template record, regardless of how the end user cascades them onto the
flowsheet. - ✔✔True
✔✔The row that causes the cascade to occur. - ✔✔Trigger row
✔✔A numeric scale representative of a nursing assessment and used as a tool to
determine future intervention (exs: Braden, GCS) - ✔✔Calculated assessment scale
✔✔A row configured to generate a charge; can be done as the end user is documenting
in flowsheet; choose it as the row type. - ✔✔Charge row
✔✔How do you associate a numerical value with the choices in a custom list row? -
✔✔Enter a number as the Abbreviation for the custom list value.
✔✔When building a row that files a charge, in which field can you specify how often the
charge(s) should be filed? - ✔✔Charge trigger type
✔✔The number of charges this row should generate when a value is entered; the
default is zero for this field, so if you leave it blank, there will be nothing generated. -
✔✔Charge quantity
✔✔Record IDs in a custom formula are formatted/identified in what way? - ✔✔Denoted
by braces
✔✔How do you make custom formula rows default to a certain number if the values are
not defined? - ✔✔Use 2 semicolons to seperate the record ID from a default value (ex:
{record ID;;0}).
✔✔In what units is weight, height, & temperature stored in Epic? - ✔✔weight- in ounces
height- in inches
temperature- in Fahrenheit
✔✔To enter values for diastolic blood pressure, what formula would you use? -
✔✔{blood pressure row ID number;D}
✔✔How is mean arterial pressure stored in Epic? - ✔✔{5;D}+({5;S}-{5;D})/3 (where '5' is
the Foundation record ID number)
