Epic Skills Assessment Epic Skills Assessment Data and Chart Interpretation Questions and Answers 2

Question 1

A patient's lab results show a potassium level of 5.8 mEq/L displayed in red on the Epic flowsheet. What does the red color coding typically indicate?

Accepted Answer

The value is critically abnormal

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The value is within normal range

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The value was manually entered

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The value is pending verification

Question 2

When reviewing a trend graph in Epic for a patient's hemoglobin levels over 7 days, which feature allows you to compare it side-by-side with another lab value?

Accepted Answer

Multi-parameter overlay

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Snapshot view

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Synopsis tab

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Chart review filter

Question 3

A bar chart in an Epic report shows monthly patient encounter volumes. March has 1,200 encounters and April has 900. What is the approximate percentage decrease from March to April?

Accepted Answer

25%

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15%

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20%

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30%

Question 4

In Epic's MyChart Bedside, a patient views a line graph of their daily temperature readings. The graph shows values of 99.1, 100.4, 101.2, and 99.8 over four days. What trend does this data represent?

Accepted Answer

An increase followed by a decrease

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Steadily increasing

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Steadily decreasing

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No significant change

Question 5

A pie chart in an Epic dashboard shows department utilization: Surgery 35%, Medicine 28%, Pediatrics 20%, and Other 17%. If total capacity is 500 beds, how many beds does Medicine occupy?

Accepted Answer

140

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100

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120

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160

Question 6

When interpreting a scatter plot of patient wait times versus time of day in Epic's reporting workbench, clusters of dots appearing at 8 AM and 5 PM suggest what pattern?

Accepted Answer

Peak wait times correlate with shift change periods

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Wait times are uniformly distributed throughout the day

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Wait times decrease during business hours

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There is no meaningful pattern in the data