Epic Skills Assessment Clinical Workflow Fundamentals 3

Question 1

Which Epic feature allows a provider to document a telephone encounter with a patient who calls the clinic?

Accepted Answer

Telephone encounter type in scheduling

Answer

A telephone encounter is a specific encounter type that creates a billable, documentable record of a phone-based patient interaction.

Question 2

What is the purpose of the 'Best Practice Advisory' (BPA) in Epic clinical workflows?

Accepted Answer

To alert clinicians to evidence-based recommendations or potential safety issues

Answer

BPAs are configurable alerts that fire when clinical logic detects a potential gap in care, safety risk, or guideline deviation.

Question 3

A patient's allergy to penicillin is documented in Epic. When a provider orders amoxicillin, what clinical decision support feature fires?

Accepted Answer

A drug-allergy interaction alert

Answer

Epic's drug-allergy checking compares ordered medications against the patient's documented allergy list and alerts the provider to cross-reactive drugs.

Question 4

Which workflow in Epic is used to document a patient's consent for a procedure?

Accepted Answer

Media tab or Consent activity

Answer

Informed consent documentation is captured in the Media tab or a dedicated Consent activity, linking the signed document to the patient's chart.

Question 5

During an inpatient stay, a nurse notes a new symptom not currently on the problem list. What is the appropriate Epic workflow?

Accepted Answer

Notify the provider via In Basket and document in nursing notes

Answer

Nurses document new findings in nursing notes and notify providers through In Basket; providers then decide whether to add items to the problem list.

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Epic Skills Assessment Clinical Workflow Fundamentals 3