IP Fundamentals Flashcards
What does Epic call the first screen a user see when they log in?
Startup Activity
What is a My List
A list of patients that I am following during my shift. I control the columns, The default report and I manage the list of patients
What is a system list, and how can it be used to organize patients?
A list of patients that automatically updated by the system. You can make a short cut to these lists in a My List
How can a surgeon quickly sort her list of patients by unit?
Click the Unit Column in Patient Lists
What types of information can a surgeon gather from reports at the bottom of the startup activities?
Vitals, I/O, Current meds, and more
How can a clinician open a patients chart?
Double-click the patient from Patient Lists
What are the tabs along the left of the screen in the patient’s chart called?
Activities
How do you know which notes are new?
A clock icon appears in a column next to the note
How can you quickly find a patients H&P within the Notes activity?
Click the H&P tab to see only H&Ps. Or, from the All Notes tab, click the Type column header to sort by note type
You want to Time Mark the new progress notes for your patient, but not the new initial assessment or consult notes. Can you do that?
No. Clicking Time Mark automatically marks ALL notes as no longer new. You cannot individually Time Mark notes
True or False: Time Mark means that you have actually read all the notes in the patients chart?
False: It simple marks that the notes are no longer new
In which activity can you view accordion reports?
Summary
How can you tell there is an abnormal value within a specified time interval in accordion reports?
There is a red exclamation reports
How is an abnormal value denoted in accordion reports?
The abnormal value appears in red
How can you tell if there are values hidden within a time interval in accordion reports?
A plus sign appears next to the value displaying in a given column
On the Add or Remove Buttons from Toolbar Window, what is the difference between the Reports and Display Name columns?
In the Reports column, you enter the name of the report you want to have as a shortcut on the Reports toolbar. The name in the Display Name column is what you actually see on a reports button in Summary.
As you are writing an order for your patient, your pager goes off. What can you do with this unfinished order?
Pend the order by clicking Save Work
What must you do before an unfinished order can be acted upon?
Complete and Sign the order
When searching for a dietary consult order you type in DIE CON in the search field. What search method are you using?
ENROL
What happens behind the scenes when you modify a medication order?
The original order is discontinued and a new order is entered. As a result two rows appear on the MAR for nurses.
What happens behind the scenes when you modify the rate of a medication?
The original order is just modified. As a result only one row appears on the MAR for nurses
What else besides Enrol can you use to locate medications?
Synonyms
Where should a physician go to order a patient’s home medication if it wasn’t originally ordered during the admission process?
Home Meds tab of the Orders Activity —> Reorder Home Meds
When documenting with a positive/negative button in the Note Writer, how can you quickly indicate that the specific condition is present or positive?
Left Click or Click the Plus sign
When documenting with a positive/negative button, how can you quickly indicate that the specific condition is absent or negative
Right Click or Click the minus sign
When documenting with a positive/negative button, how can you quickly add a comment?
Hover your mouse cursor over the positive/negative button and start typing. Or double click the positive/negative button to open the comment window and then start typing.
True or False: You can add free text to a note in the Note form
You can add additional information to your note by using Smart Phrases or free text in the white space within the note
How can you search for a patient that is not admitted to the hospital?
Click the patient lookup to search through the entire database of patients including those who are not admitted
What activity should you use to get report at start of shift
Summary Activity
True or False: When you log out, the system remembers all filters and views that you set on the Work List.
False, The work list only saves the last view selected by the user. The filter is not saved.
How would you change the work lit to display only medication tasks organized by patient?
Change to Patient View and filter on Medications
True or False? The work list only allows a nurse to view tasks for one patient at a time.
False,
For what time frame does the work list display tasks when first opened?
Current Shift
True or False: The worklist includes all tasks that a nurse might have to complete throughout a shift
False
A physician is having trouble in the orders activity and asks for your help. He says I want to enter a set of new orders for my patient who has the flu. He points out the order set section of orders activity which is not suggesting anything to him. He says, shouldn’t the system be suggesting an order set for flu? I was told one was built specifically for that diagnosis.
What is the reason(s) the order set is not being suggested? Choose All answers that apply.
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You are supporting a hospital go live when a physician calls you over to his computer, He says “I’m trying to sign this note, but the system wont let me. What am I doing wrong?” What is preventing the physician from signing this note?
- The physician must complete the smart lists
* The physician must replace the wildcard with free text or delete it
