Epic Skills Assessment Verbal Reasoning Questions and Answers 2

Question 1

EPHEMERAL most nearly means ____.

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Lasting only a short time

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Permanent

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Substantial

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Repetitive

Question 2

Identify the logical flaw: 'Our hospital adopted Epic 2 years ago. Patient satisfaction scores increased by 10%. Therefore, Epic caused the improvement.'

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc — assuming causation from temporal sequence

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The sample size is too small

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The improvement is too small to matter

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Epic is unrelated to satisfaction

Question 3

Select the sentence that is grammatically correct and logically clear:

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After reviewing the labs, the doctor ordered the medication, and results confirmed it was appropriate.

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The doctor ordered labs, which the nurse administered the medication and results came back normal.

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The lab results, the medication was ordered by the doctor after.

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Results normal were when the doctor the medication ordered.

Question 4

AMBIGUOUS most nearly means ____.

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Able to be understood in more than one way

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Clear and precise

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Incorrect or false

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Overly complicated

Question 5

Which transition word best completes: 'The patient had no previous cardiac history. ___, the EKG showed significant abnormalities.'

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Nevertheless

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Therefore

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Similarly

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Consequently

Question 6

Reading comprehension: A passage states: 'Epic's BestPractice Advisories (BPAs) are designed to improve care quality, but over-alerting can cause providers to dismiss all alerts — even critical ones.' What is the author's main concern?

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Too many alerts can cause alert fatigue, undermining the safety goal of BPAs

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Epic BPAs are unnecessary

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BPAs should only appear for critical conditions

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Alert dismissal is not a problem in practice