OR350 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Room (ROM)
Answer:
Rooms are patient rooms, not Operating Rooms. These would include the rooms on the floors where one,
maybe two, patient beds are located. Patients are admitted to and transferred into specific rooms.
Question:
2. Department (DEP)
Answer:
Departments in Epic are similar to what you would traditionally call a unit or department in the healthcare
world. This is also the level that a user logs into. Examples include Preprocedure, Main OR, and PACU
departments
Question:
3. Perioperative Departments > DEP ?
Answer:
Multiple Virtual Departments
-Preprocedure, Main OR, PACU, and Recovery.
-Drive role specific settings
Question:
4. What are pool rooms? what do others in the hospitals see?
Answer:
Movement in periop area only viewed through case tracking events by periop users.
-Other users will just see perioperative pool room
Question:
5. OR Locations (EAF) are linked to..? what do they control?
Answer:
-Linked to one perioperative department (Usually Main OR)
-Optime specific tools, reports, charging strategies, and more for that perioperative area
Question:
6. Operating Rooms (SER) refers to ____ within ____.
Answer:
-Individual Operating rooms within an OR Location
-When sx requested for a particular OR location, the scheduler will schedule a case into an available
timeslot.
Question:
7. An Or Location is defined as
,Answer:
A group of OR's that are administered in the same way.
Question:
8. Build process for OR
Answer:
1. Create an OR Location
2. Build Operating Rooms
3. Create a schedule that organizes an OR's time into blocks
Question:
9. Building by exception
Answer:
aka Rule of Specificity, making general settings in a high-level record and only making setting changes
different in specific records.
Question:
10. How to Configure an OR Location on Hyperspace
Answer:
Location Definition -> TRNOR05 Neurosurgery -> Invasive Cardiology -> Case Tracking events
Question:
11. Automatic Surgery Reminders are found where?
Answer:
Upcoming Case Reminder/Time to Send text and Mychart
Question:
12. What is the Scheduling 2 form?
Answer:
home to settings that determine when schedules are finalized and how to handle cases scheduled on
holidays and weekends.
Question:
13. What is Case Volume
Answer:
A report that returns the amount of patients seen, usually during a particular perioperative phase of care.
This type of report includes add■on cases, both those that are marked as add■ons and those that should
have been but weren't.
Question:
14. What is block utilization
Answer:
report that returns the percentage of OR block time that is actually used by cases of that block type
compared to the total block time available. For example, a cardiothoracic case that is performed during
cardiothoracic block time would increase the block utilization percentage, but the same case performed
outside of cardiothoracic block time may not
, Question:
15. What is a Surgical Inventory Item?(SUP)
Answer:
A record representing a single inventory item including its name, manufacturer number, clinical
information, and more
Question:
16. What is a Balance (BAL) record?
Answer:
A record with location specific info about an inventory item such as where it is stored.
Question:
17. What is Materials Management
Answer:
A dept in charge of ordering, receivinig, storing, and issuingn inventory
Question:
18. All patients undergoing surgery are admitted into what?
Answer:
a pool room
Question:
19. How do you add a new service?
Answer:
Add to a category list
Question:
20. Which of the following records is added to a surgical case well in advance to plapn for the staff and
equipment need? A Provider, B Resource type, C User
Answer:
Resource Type
Question:
21. Which of the following would not have a resource type? C- Arm Circulator OR Scalpel Surgeon
Answer:
OR, Surgeon
Question:
22. You want to create a new CER record that evaluates whether a patient is younger than 18 year olds so
that you can suggest pedi tools to nurses when appropriate. Which of the following would be set as 18?
Answer:
Value
Question:
23. How do Materials Management and EPIC communicate
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Room (ROM)
Answer:
Rooms are patient rooms, not Operating Rooms. These would include the rooms on the floors where one,
maybe two, patient beds are located. Patients are admitted to and transferred into specific rooms.
Question:
2. Department (DEP)
Answer:
Departments in Epic are similar to what you would traditionally call a unit or department in the healthcare
world. This is also the level that a user logs into. Examples include Preprocedure, Main OR, and PACU
departments
Question:
3. Perioperative Departments > DEP ?
Answer:
Multiple Virtual Departments
-Preprocedure, Main OR, PACU, and Recovery.
-Drive role specific settings
Question:
4. What are pool rooms? what do others in the hospitals see?
Answer:
Movement in periop area only viewed through case tracking events by periop users.
-Other users will just see perioperative pool room
Question:
5. OR Locations (EAF) are linked to..? what do they control?
Answer:
-Linked to one perioperative department (Usually Main OR)
-Optime specific tools, reports, charging strategies, and more for that perioperative area
Question:
6. Operating Rooms (SER) refers to ____ within ____.
Answer:
-Individual Operating rooms within an OR Location
-When sx requested for a particular OR location, the scheduler will schedule a case into an available
timeslot.
Question:
7. An Or Location is defined as
,Answer:
A group of OR's that are administered in the same way.
Question:
8. Build process for OR
Answer:
1. Create an OR Location
2. Build Operating Rooms
3. Create a schedule that organizes an OR's time into blocks
Question:
9. Building by exception
Answer:
aka Rule of Specificity, making general settings in a high-level record and only making setting changes
different in specific records.
Question:
10. How to Configure an OR Location on Hyperspace
Answer:
Location Definition -> TRNOR05 Neurosurgery -> Invasive Cardiology -> Case Tracking events
Question:
11. Automatic Surgery Reminders are found where?
Answer:
Upcoming Case Reminder/Time to Send text and Mychart
Question:
12. What is the Scheduling 2 form?
Answer:
home to settings that determine when schedules are finalized and how to handle cases scheduled on
holidays and weekends.
Question:
13. What is Case Volume
Answer:
A report that returns the amount of patients seen, usually during a particular perioperative phase of care.
This type of report includes add■on cases, both those that are marked as add■ons and those that should
have been but weren't.
Question:
14. What is block utilization
Answer:
report that returns the percentage of OR block time that is actually used by cases of that block type
compared to the total block time available. For example, a cardiothoracic case that is performed during
cardiothoracic block time would increase the block utilization percentage, but the same case performed
outside of cardiothoracic block time may not
, Question:
15. What is a Surgical Inventory Item?(SUP)
Answer:
A record representing a single inventory item including its name, manufacturer number, clinical
information, and more
Question:
16. What is a Balance (BAL) record?
Answer:
A record with location specific info about an inventory item such as where it is stored.
Question:
17. What is Materials Management
Answer:
A dept in charge of ordering, receivinig, storing, and issuingn inventory
Question:
18. All patients undergoing surgery are admitted into what?
Answer:
a pool room
Question:
19. How do you add a new service?
Answer:
Add to a category list
Question:
20. Which of the following records is added to a surgical case well in advance to plapn for the staff and
equipment need? A Provider, B Resource type, C User
Answer:
Resource Type
Question:
21. Which of the following would not have a resource type? C- Arm Circulator OR Scalpel Surgeon
Answer:
OR, Surgeon
Question:
22. You want to create a new CER record that evaluates whether a patient is younger than 18 year olds so
that you can suggest pedi tools to nurses when appropriate. Which of the following would be set as 18?
Answer:
Value
Question:
23. How do Materials Management and EPIC communicate