Hospital Corpsman Basic (HCB 101) Certification Review Exam Questions And Answers

Using risk management concepts when time and resources are limited - correct answers Time Critical Risk Management (TCRM) A - Assess the situation B - Balance resources C - Communicate to others D - Do and Debrief the event - correct answers ABCD model Considering event in a real-time situation - correct answers Assess the situation How accurately one's perception of their environment mirrors reality - correct answers Situational Awareness Green - Little chance of serious error Yellow - higher chance of serious error Red - very high chance of serious error - correct answers Risk is gauged in three colors: Return to good situational awareness - correct answers Swooshing Arrow Make the correct decisions to mitigate risks - correct answers Balance resources Ensure everyone knows what is expected and what could go wrong - correct answers Communicate to others Do the mission and use the appropriate resources to mitigate risk - correct answers Do and Debrief Honor, Courage, Commitment - correct answers Navy Core Values A keen sense of ethical conduct - correct answers Honor The mental and moral strength to do what is right, even in the face of personal or professional adversity - correct answers Courage The day-to-day duty of every Navy man and woman to work together as a team to improve the quality of their work, their people, and themselves - correct answers Commitment I. Assess the situation - what is being done and what risks are involved II. Balance Resources- what can be done/used to reduce/minimize risk III. Communicate to all concerned - make sure everyone involved is aware of what is to take place and how IV. Do - complete the mission/task or mitigate risk by acting on the condition, than follow-up by debriefing - correct answers Mnemonic ABCD Rating insignia for the Hospital Corps - correct answers Caduceus Where sick and injured receive care - correct answers Sickbay Cockpit - correct answers What is another name for sickbay? Surgeon Steward - correct answers What was the first enlisted rate that required specific qualification? Medal of Honor - correct answers What is the highest military decoration that can be awarded? Distinguished Service Cross - correct answers What is the second highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the Army? Navy Cross - correct answers What is the second highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the US Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard? Silver star - correct answers What is the third-highest military combat decoration that can be awarded? Bronze Star - correct answers What is the U.S. military decoration awarded for heroic achievement or service in combat not involving aerial flight? "A convenient place shall be set apart for sick or hurt men..." - correct answers Article 16 2 or 3 men - correct answers A typical medical section is limited to __ or __ men Trained physician - correct answers What is a Ship's Surgeon? - Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon - Held Warrant Officer like status - responsibilities more equivalent to a modern-day senior HM - correct answers Surgeon's mate - Mandated all newly commissioned sailing warships to contain a "cockpit" for treatment of the sick and injured - correct answers On March 1799, Congress Served a porridge called "loblolly" to the sick and injured which was used to create the Corpsman forerunners nickname of "Loblolly Boys" - correct answers Duties assigned by Ship's Surgeon 1814 - correct answers Loblolly Boy was classified as an official rate in... - Quasi-War with France () - During the First Barbary War () - correct answers Loblolly Boys served during... John Wall - correct answers Who was the first loblolly boy? John Domyn - correct answers Who was the first Loblolly boy POW? Robert H. Stanley - correct answers Who was the first corpsman to receive the Medal of Honor? Joseph Anderson - correct answers Who was the first African American Loblolly Boy? - Ranked second in seniority among ship petty officers - First enlisted rate that requires specific qualifications. - correct answers Surgeon Steward 1841 - correct answers Surgeon Steward was first seen in the Navy pay charts in... - Applied to junior enlisted medical personnel - Served concurrently with Surgeon Steward - correct answers Nurse () - Pharmacist - Invaluable to medical department for anesthesia, logistics, and training Baymen - correct answers Apothecary Cornelius O'Leary and Robert Stanley - correct answers Apothecaries of distinction June 17, 1898 - correct answers When is the hospital corpsman's birthday? A highly complicated inter-personal process of people relating to each other through conversation, gestures, writing, ext. - correct answers Communication someone who buys goods or services/a person who has a particular quality - correct answers customer Anyone for whom a service requiring some degree of confidentiality - correct answers Client Listening and asking questions - correct answers Active listening The physical location to which a customer goes to obtain a service - correct answers Contact point The tendency to move toward a situation or away from it - correct answers Attitude the ability to do something well - correct answers Skill Speaking in a good tone to clearly convey message - correct answers Verbal Facial expressions, physical proximity, gestures, and voice tone - correct answers Nonverbal Patient found peace with diagnosis - correct answers Acceptance Looks for cause or blame - correct answers Anger The wish for extension of life, or relief of pain - correct answers Bargaining State of having suffered a loss - correct answers Bereavement Adjusting to or solving challenges - correct answers Coping Person can't believe diagnosis - correct answers Denial Sense of great loss of the impending loss of being - correct answers Depression Ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand their feelings - correct answers Empathy Emotional feeling of pain as a reaction to loss - correct answers Grief Philosophy of care for the dying and their families - correct answers Hospice A place where dead bodies are kept - correct answers Morgue Social expressions of grief - correct answers Mourning Number of deaths in a population - correct answers Mortality the relief of symptoms when cure is no longer possible, and treatment is provided solely for comfort - correct answers palliation After death - correct answers Postmortem An affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other - correct answers Sympathy Leading ultimately to death; an unhealthy condition of the body. There is no reasonable expectation of recovery. - correct answers Terminal illness the stiffening of the body after death - correct answers Rigor mortis 22 - correct answers How many Medal of Honor recipients from the Hospital Corps? denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance - correct answers What are the 5 stages of grief? 182 - correct answers How many Navy Crosses? 33 - correct answers How many Distinguished Service Medals? 946 - correct answers How many silver stars? 1582 - correct answers How many bronze stars? 22 - correct answers How many Naval vessels have been named after Corpsman? John Bradley - correct answers Who participated in the flag raising on Mount Suribachi? 1948 - correct answers What year did the rating insignia of the Hospital Corps change from the Red Cross to the caduceus? October 1, 2005 - correct answers When did the Dental Technician (DT) rating, a seperate enlisted specialty since 12 December 1947, merge with the Hospital Corps? Baymen - correct answers What rate replaced the title of "Nurse"? Surgeon Steward - correct answers What was the first enlisted rating to require specific qualifications? Acts as though nothing has happened and refuses to accept the fact of the loss - correct answers Denial Expresses resistance and sometimes feels anger towards a deity, people, or situation - correct answers Anger Postpones awareness of loss. Makes promises to self, deity, or loved ones - correct answers Bargaining Realizes impact of loss - correct answers Depression Comes to terms with loss. Finds ways to move forward - correct answers Acceptance The patient must have made a knowledgeable decision with full awareness of the consequences - correct answers Lawful Consent The healthcare provider give the patient all the information necessary for a knowledgeable decision - correct answers Informed Consent A document that governs the disclosure of documents maintained by government agencies - correct answers Freedom of Information Act the pressure created in the arteries when the left ventricle contracts and forces blood out into circulation - correct answers systolic blood pressure the pressure remaining in the arteries when the left ventricle of the heart is relaxed and refilling - correct answers diastolic blood pressure Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart - correct answers Arteries Blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart - correct answers Veins Outer layer of the eye - correct answers Sclera 28 - correct answers How many bones is the skull made of? 14 - correct answers How many facial bones are there? eardrum - correct answers What is the tympanic membrane? Connect muscle to bone - correct answers What are tendons? Connect bone to bone - correct answers What are ligaments? brain and spinal cord - correct answers What does the CNS consist of? sympathetic and parasympathetic - correct answers What is the ANS divided into? sympathetic - correct answers Which nervous system is fight-or-flight? Produces insulin - correct answers What does the pancreas do? atria - correct answers What are the two upper chambers of the heart called? ventricles - correct answers What are the two lower chambers of the heart? 12 - correct answers How many thoracic vertebrae are there? 12 - correct answers How many pairs of ribs do we have? 7 - correct answers How many true ribs are there? 8-12 - correct answers What ribs are false ribs? 11-12 - correct answers What ribs are floating ribs? Bronchi - correct answers What are the primary divisions of the trachea that lead into the right and left lung? alveolus - correct answers Where does gas exchange occur in the lungs? Lateral recumbent - correct answers What position is the body when it's laying on either side? Prone - correct answers What is it called when the body is laying face down Supine - correct answers What is it called when the body is lying face up? a law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government - correct answers Freedom of Information Act The system that you must be enrolled in to be eligible for TRICARE - correct answers Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) The members that are enrolled into DEERS - correct answers Beneficiary Establishes safeguards concerning the right to privacy by regulating the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personal information by federal agencies. - correct answers Privacy Act of 1974 - 1996 - Provides safeguards for protected health information (PHI) to ensure patient privacy is maintained - correct answers Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) - Creates business processes to protect the use and disclosure of PHI - Allows the use and disclosure of PHI for treatment or payment w/o patients consent - correct answers HIPPA Privacy Rule Provides protection for individually identifiable health information that is received in electronic form - correct answers HIPPA Security Rule Documentation of outpatient medical and dental care 3 Categories = Health, Outpatient, Inpatient - correct answers Primary Medical Records