INP402 EPIC CARE INPATIENT CLINICAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS (LATEST UPDATE 2025)
Flowsheets activity --<<Correct Answer-- Where do nurse do the majority of their documentation for a patient?
Template (Flowsheet templates, Flowsheet tabs) --<<Correct Answer-- Used to organize different types of
documentation; seen as tabs within the activity; used to group similar categories of documentation together.
FLT master file --<<Correct Answer-- Each flowsheet template is a record in which master file?
FLO master file --<<Correct Answer-- Groups & Rows are records in which master file?
Group (Flowsheet Group) --<<Correct Answer-- Used to organize individual documentation flowsheet rows; appears as a
darker row color/bold font in the flowsheet activity.
Row (Flowsheet Row) --<<Correct Answer-- Where data is documented; designed to hold specific data; appears as a
lighter row color in the flowsheet activity.
Doc Flowsheet Builder --<<Correct Answer-- The administrators home menu when building flowsheets.
Row type --<<Correct Answer-- Defines the purpose of a record.
Acuity Calculator Charge Row
Custom Formula Data
Flowsheet Group Infusion Group Lines/Drains/Airways Programming Point
Properties --<<Correct Answer-- Row types: What are the nine (9) available row types?
Value type --<<Correct Answer-- Defines the type of information users can document in the row & how they should
format it; determined by the row type.
Blood Pressure Category Type Custom List Date
Height Numeric Type Patient Height Patient Weight String Type Temperature Time
Weight --<<Correct Answer-- Value types: What are the twelve (12) available value types?
Details Report --<<Correct Answer-- Shows extra information about the flowsheet on the right side; min & max values,
who documented, etc.
Table of Contents --<<Correct Answer-- To the left of the flowsheet; shows the available templates/tabs.
, Within the open group/row record (in the doc flowsheet builder). --<<Correct Answer-- Where do you link rows to a
group?
Within the open template record (in the doc flowsheet builder). --<<Correct Answer-- Where do you link groups to a
template?
The group form in a flowsheet group record. --<<Correct Answer-- Where do you specify all the rows that should
normally show up in a group by default?
Start Removed (mark them as start removed). --<<Correct Answer-- How do you have groups added on a template that
should not appear by default/added by clinicians as needed?
Topics --<<Correct Answer-- Organizes similar groups together in the table of contents so clinicians can easily navigate
to that part of the flowsheet template.
From the bottom up, but with a slight variation:
-at a high level, to build most flowsheet rows:
Create a placeholder flowsheet group record
Build all the rows to appear on the flowsheet (build row records & set the group as "preferred")
Attach the rows to groups created in Step 1
Build the flowsheet template & attach groups to it --<<Correct Answer-- In what order should you build a flowsheet?
In Hyperspace (in Flowsheets FLT & FLO) --<<Correct Answer-- Where are all flowsheet records built, edited, &
accessed?
Preface all group record names with "G" and preface all row record names with "R."
--<<Correct Answer-- How should you distinguish between groups and rows in the FLO record?
A Row Type of Flowsheet Group. --<<Correct Answer-- When building a basic flowsheet group (aka one not used for LDAs
or med intake), what category of Row Type should you use?
True --<<Correct Answer-- True or False. Updating the Row Type for a record can alter what you can or cannot do within
it.
The max/min fields prevent impossible values from being entered; the warning max/warning min fields help to alert
clinicians of abnormal values. --<<Correct Answer--
:Explain the difference between Maximum/Minimum fields vs. Warning Maximum/Warning Minimum fields.
Preferred group --<<Correct Answer-- A setting within a row record that indicates what group a row should be added to
if the row is added to a flowsheet on its own; does NOT add the row to the group, just says what group is should appear
in.
Drops to the bottom of the flowsheet in the OTHER group. --<<Correct Answer-- What happens if the preferred group is
left blank?
After all rows are created, you list them within the group record itself. --<<Correct Answer--
:How do you LINK the rows into the group?
ANSWERS (LATEST UPDATE 2025)
Flowsheets activity --<<Correct Answer-- Where do nurse do the majority of their documentation for a patient?
Template (Flowsheet templates, Flowsheet tabs) --<<Correct Answer-- Used to organize different types of
documentation; seen as tabs within the activity; used to group similar categories of documentation together.
FLT master file --<<Correct Answer-- Each flowsheet template is a record in which master file?
FLO master file --<<Correct Answer-- Groups & Rows are records in which master file?
Group (Flowsheet Group) --<<Correct Answer-- Used to organize individual documentation flowsheet rows; appears as a
darker row color/bold font in the flowsheet activity.
Row (Flowsheet Row) --<<Correct Answer-- Where data is documented; designed to hold specific data; appears as a
lighter row color in the flowsheet activity.
Doc Flowsheet Builder --<<Correct Answer-- The administrators home menu when building flowsheets.
Row type --<<Correct Answer-- Defines the purpose of a record.
Acuity Calculator Charge Row
Custom Formula Data
Flowsheet Group Infusion Group Lines/Drains/Airways Programming Point
Properties --<<Correct Answer-- Row types: What are the nine (9) available row types?
Value type --<<Correct Answer-- Defines the type of information users can document in the row & how they should
format it; determined by the row type.
Blood Pressure Category Type Custom List Date
Height Numeric Type Patient Height Patient Weight String Type Temperature Time
Weight --<<Correct Answer-- Value types: What are the twelve (12) available value types?
Details Report --<<Correct Answer-- Shows extra information about the flowsheet on the right side; min & max values,
who documented, etc.
Table of Contents --<<Correct Answer-- To the left of the flowsheet; shows the available templates/tabs.
, Within the open group/row record (in the doc flowsheet builder). --<<Correct Answer-- Where do you link rows to a
group?
Within the open template record (in the doc flowsheet builder). --<<Correct Answer-- Where do you link groups to a
template?
The group form in a flowsheet group record. --<<Correct Answer-- Where do you specify all the rows that should
normally show up in a group by default?
Start Removed (mark them as start removed). --<<Correct Answer-- How do you have groups added on a template that
should not appear by default/added by clinicians as needed?
Topics --<<Correct Answer-- Organizes similar groups together in the table of contents so clinicians can easily navigate
to that part of the flowsheet template.
From the bottom up, but with a slight variation:
-at a high level, to build most flowsheet rows:
Create a placeholder flowsheet group record
Build all the rows to appear on the flowsheet (build row records & set the group as "preferred")
Attach the rows to groups created in Step 1
Build the flowsheet template & attach groups to it --<<Correct Answer-- In what order should you build a flowsheet?
In Hyperspace (in Flowsheets FLT & FLO) --<<Correct Answer-- Where are all flowsheet records built, edited, &
accessed?
Preface all group record names with "G" and preface all row record names with "R."
--<<Correct Answer-- How should you distinguish between groups and rows in the FLO record?
A Row Type of Flowsheet Group. --<<Correct Answer-- When building a basic flowsheet group (aka one not used for LDAs
or med intake), what category of Row Type should you use?
True --<<Correct Answer-- True or False. Updating the Row Type for a record can alter what you can or cannot do within
it.
The max/min fields prevent impossible values from being entered; the warning max/warning min fields help to alert
clinicians of abnormal values. --<<Correct Answer--
:Explain the difference between Maximum/Minimum fields vs. Warning Maximum/Warning Minimum fields.
Preferred group --<<Correct Answer-- A setting within a row record that indicates what group a row should be added to
if the row is added to a flowsheet on its own; does NOT add the row to the group, just says what group is should appear
in.
Drops to the bottom of the flowsheet in the OTHER group. --<<Correct Answer-- What happens if the preferred group is
left blank?
After all rows are created, you list them within the group record itself. --<<Correct Answer--
:How do you LINK the rows into the group?
