EPIC OR350 EXAM SCRIPT 2025 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Why do surgeons write H&P notes? How do surgeons write an H&P in Epic? -
✔✔Surgeons write H&P notes to lay out their patients' medical history, results of a
physical assessment, and plan for surgery. Surgeons write H&Ps using NoteWriter
which can be found through the H&P Notes section in the Prep for Surgery Navigator.
✔✔What do you click to open a SmartList? - ✔✔Click the yellow star, then the yellow
forward arrow. You can also press F2 on the keyboard.
✔✔True or False? You can open only one Order Set at a time. - ✔✔False. You can
select multiple Order Sets, and then click the Open Order Sets button to open all of
them.
✔✔True or False: When you select an order in an Order Set, you can see a brief
statement summarizing the orders details. This is called the SUMMARY SENTENCE.
Clicking it opens the ORDER COMPOSER. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False: Orders that should be active right away are SIGNED. Orders that will
be made active later are SIGNED AND HELD. - ✔✔True
✔✔The Snapboard Schedule - ✔✔shows those already assigned to a particular time
and room.
✔✔The Snapboard Depot - ✔✔shows cases waiting to be scheduled
✔✔preference card - ✔✔is the recipe for how the surgery should be performed
✔✔True or False: Case requests are not always created by a surgeon using an order.
Any surgeons that do not use Epic in their private practice will continue to send case
requests via a phone call or fax. - ✔✔True
✔✔Steps for Creating New Patients - ✔✔1) enter name 2) enter DOB 3) click find
patient 4) if no patient, click cancel 5) enter SSN 6) enter sex 7) click new
✔✔True or False: Patient class determines whether the patient is an inpatient, an
outpatient, or an emergency patient. It is important to select the correct patient class in
order for the patient to be billed appropriately for the services provided. - ✔✔true
✔✔There are five pieces of information that are programmatically required for a case
request to work, no matter how the system is configured: - ✔✔• Patient
• Location
• Surgeon
,• Service (which defaults from the surgeon)
• Procedure
✔✔panel - ✔✔is a list of procedures to be performed by a single primary surgeon in a
single surgical service.
✔✔Add-on cases - ✔✔are cases that are added after the schedule has been created for
a given day and require a slightly different workflow
✔✔elective surgery - ✔✔is one that is planned in advance, like Brianna's knee surgery.
It is elective in the sense that a patient chooses it.
✔✔emergent case - ✔✔is one that has to happen right away, such as when a patient
arrives in the ED with an abdominal aortic aneurism (AAA) and is at risk of dying of
blood loss.
✔✔urgent case - ✔✔needs to take place soon, probably within the next few hours, but
not immediately. For instance, a patient with an ankle fracture might be classified as
urgent; the fracture needs to be repaired quite soon, but does not threaten the patient's
life right now.
✔✔trauma case - ✔✔is very similar to an emergent case, but it is reserved for specific
kinds of injuries, and often involves separate trauma teams and trauma surgeons
✔✔What is populated from the Preference Card - ✔✔• Timing information (such as
setup length and cleanup length)
• Requested anesthesia type
• How the pick list should print (all procedures combined or separate per panel or
procedure)
• Staff information
• Instruments
• Equipment information
• Special instructions for the scheduler, nursing staff, and patient
✔✔Is it possible for a surgeon to create a case, or can only schedulers create cases? -
✔✔Surgeons can create cases, too. Surgeons can place orders to create a case
request with the surgery information that the scheduler would then schedule. Also, in
emergency situations, a nurse may need to create the case request and schedule it.
✔✔Why do you need to enter a surgeon and service before entering a procedure in the
case? - ✔✔The procedures available to choose from are based on the service for which
the surgeon is authorized.
, ✔✔When you choose a procedure, what types of information may be entered
automatically into the case based on a preference card? - ✔✔Timing information (such
as setup length and cleanup length); staff information (what types of staff members are
needed for the procedure); supplies, instruments, and equipment needed; requested
anesthesia type; how the pick list will print.
✔✔What are two quick ways to search for a procedure? - ✔✔Completion matching or
using the CPT code.
✔✔When do you need to add another panel to a case in order to add a procedure? -
✔✔When the case involves more than one primary surgeon or surgical service. A panel
is the combination of a primary surgeon and a surgical service.
✔✔What is an add-on case? - ✔✔An add-on case is a case that is added to the
schedule after it has been finalized (usually the day of surgery).
✔✔True or False: A scheduler cannot change a case's preference card once it
automatically pulls in from the system. - ✔✔False.
✔✔Removing a case - ✔✔allows you to take the case off the schedule and place it back
in the depot for later scheduling
✔✔Shuffling a case - ✔✔is a method that is used to handle multiple changes and keep
them in their own depot
✔✔Canceling a case - ✔✔is more permanent than removing a case, because canceled
cases do not return to the depot; therefore, canceling is used when a surgery cannot be
done and will almost certainly not be rescheduled (and, even if it is, a new case will be
required with updated H&P information).
✔✔Voiding a Case - ✔✔Cases are voided for one reason and one reason only—a case
was created by mistake - for example, it was created for the wrong patient. The Void
option is available only within an unscheduled case; in other words, if you want to void a
scheduled case, you must first remove it and then open it up in the depot.
✔✔Yellow warnings - ✔✔are "soft." Any user can choose to stop or to continue the
scheduling action. An example of a conflict that gives a yellow warning is scheduling a
case on a past date
✔✔Red warning - ✔✔is a hard warning that means, "It's just not possible to schedule
this case here, no matter who you are." A user cannot override it with any security level.
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Why do surgeons write H&P notes? How do surgeons write an H&P in Epic? -
✔✔Surgeons write H&P notes to lay out their patients' medical history, results of a
physical assessment, and plan for surgery. Surgeons write H&Ps using NoteWriter
which can be found through the H&P Notes section in the Prep for Surgery Navigator.
✔✔What do you click to open a SmartList? - ✔✔Click the yellow star, then the yellow
forward arrow. You can also press F2 on the keyboard.
✔✔True or False? You can open only one Order Set at a time. - ✔✔False. You can
select multiple Order Sets, and then click the Open Order Sets button to open all of
them.
✔✔True or False: When you select an order in an Order Set, you can see a brief
statement summarizing the orders details. This is called the SUMMARY SENTENCE.
Clicking it opens the ORDER COMPOSER. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False: Orders that should be active right away are SIGNED. Orders that will
be made active later are SIGNED AND HELD. - ✔✔True
✔✔The Snapboard Schedule - ✔✔shows those already assigned to a particular time
and room.
✔✔The Snapboard Depot - ✔✔shows cases waiting to be scheduled
✔✔preference card - ✔✔is the recipe for how the surgery should be performed
✔✔True or False: Case requests are not always created by a surgeon using an order.
Any surgeons that do not use Epic in their private practice will continue to send case
requests via a phone call or fax. - ✔✔True
✔✔Steps for Creating New Patients - ✔✔1) enter name 2) enter DOB 3) click find
patient 4) if no patient, click cancel 5) enter SSN 6) enter sex 7) click new
✔✔True or False: Patient class determines whether the patient is an inpatient, an
outpatient, or an emergency patient. It is important to select the correct patient class in
order for the patient to be billed appropriately for the services provided. - ✔✔true
✔✔There are five pieces of information that are programmatically required for a case
request to work, no matter how the system is configured: - ✔✔• Patient
• Location
• Surgeon
,• Service (which defaults from the surgeon)
• Procedure
✔✔panel - ✔✔is a list of procedures to be performed by a single primary surgeon in a
single surgical service.
✔✔Add-on cases - ✔✔are cases that are added after the schedule has been created for
a given day and require a slightly different workflow
✔✔elective surgery - ✔✔is one that is planned in advance, like Brianna's knee surgery.
It is elective in the sense that a patient chooses it.
✔✔emergent case - ✔✔is one that has to happen right away, such as when a patient
arrives in the ED with an abdominal aortic aneurism (AAA) and is at risk of dying of
blood loss.
✔✔urgent case - ✔✔needs to take place soon, probably within the next few hours, but
not immediately. For instance, a patient with an ankle fracture might be classified as
urgent; the fracture needs to be repaired quite soon, but does not threaten the patient's
life right now.
✔✔trauma case - ✔✔is very similar to an emergent case, but it is reserved for specific
kinds of injuries, and often involves separate trauma teams and trauma surgeons
✔✔What is populated from the Preference Card - ✔✔• Timing information (such as
setup length and cleanup length)
• Requested anesthesia type
• How the pick list should print (all procedures combined or separate per panel or
procedure)
• Staff information
• Instruments
• Equipment information
• Special instructions for the scheduler, nursing staff, and patient
✔✔Is it possible for a surgeon to create a case, or can only schedulers create cases? -
✔✔Surgeons can create cases, too. Surgeons can place orders to create a case
request with the surgery information that the scheduler would then schedule. Also, in
emergency situations, a nurse may need to create the case request and schedule it.
✔✔Why do you need to enter a surgeon and service before entering a procedure in the
case? - ✔✔The procedures available to choose from are based on the service for which
the surgeon is authorized.
, ✔✔When you choose a procedure, what types of information may be entered
automatically into the case based on a preference card? - ✔✔Timing information (such
as setup length and cleanup length); staff information (what types of staff members are
needed for the procedure); supplies, instruments, and equipment needed; requested
anesthesia type; how the pick list will print.
✔✔What are two quick ways to search for a procedure? - ✔✔Completion matching or
using the CPT code.
✔✔When do you need to add another panel to a case in order to add a procedure? -
✔✔When the case involves more than one primary surgeon or surgical service. A panel
is the combination of a primary surgeon and a surgical service.
✔✔What is an add-on case? - ✔✔An add-on case is a case that is added to the
schedule after it has been finalized (usually the day of surgery).
✔✔True or False: A scheduler cannot change a case's preference card once it
automatically pulls in from the system. - ✔✔False.
✔✔Removing a case - ✔✔allows you to take the case off the schedule and place it back
in the depot for later scheduling
✔✔Shuffling a case - ✔✔is a method that is used to handle multiple changes and keep
them in their own depot
✔✔Canceling a case - ✔✔is more permanent than removing a case, because canceled
cases do not return to the depot; therefore, canceling is used when a surgery cannot be
done and will almost certainly not be rescheduled (and, even if it is, a new case will be
required with updated H&P information).
✔✔Voiding a Case - ✔✔Cases are voided for one reason and one reason only—a case
was created by mistake - for example, it was created for the wrong patient. The Void
option is available only within an unscheduled case; in other words, if you want to void a
scheduled case, you must first remove it and then open it up in the depot.
✔✔Yellow warnings - ✔✔are "soft." Any user can choose to stop or to continue the
scheduling action. An example of a conflict that gives a yellow warning is scheduling a
case on a past date
✔✔Red warning - ✔✔is a hard warning that means, "It's just not possible to schedule
this case here, no matter who you are." A user cannot override it with any security level.
