HOSA CERT SKILLS LATEST EXAM ACTUAL 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔One-Person Arm Carry - ✔✔If the rescuer is physically able and the survivor is small
Reach around the survivors back and under the knees
✔✔Pack Strap Carry - ✔✔1. Stand with your back to the survivor
2. Place the survivor's arms over your shoulders and grab the hands infront of your
chest
3. Hoist them by bending slightly fowards until their feet just cleer the floor
✔✔Two Person Carry - ✔✔Rescuer 1:
Reach under the arms and hold around the stomach. Grab the survivors let hand with
your right and vice versa (so their hands are crossed)
Rescuer 2:
Go inbetween th esruvivors legs. Grab around their legs at the knees
✔✔Chair Carry - ✔✔Rescuer 1:
Cross the hands of the survivor and grab the back of the chair
Rescuer 2:
Grab the front 2 legs of the chair
Both:
Tilt the chair back
✔✔Blanket Carry - ✔✔1. Position the survivor in the middle of a blanket (use the "log
rolling" technique)
2. With three rescuers on each side, the lead person calls out "Ready to lift on the count
of three: one two three" and the team lifts in unison
Must Lift and Lower in Unison
✔✔Log Rolling - ✔✔One person holds head and the rest of the rescuers roll the person
(like a log)
✔✔Blanket Drag - ✔✔1. Wrap in blanket
2. Grasp one end of the blanket
3. Drag
✔✔What is the ICS - ✔✔ICS is the system used by Emergency Response Agency (like
CERT) to manage emergency operations. Provides a means of managing personel,
facilities, equipment, and commnictions.
✔✔Vicarious Trauma - ✔✔Natural Reaction to exposure to a survivor's trauma. A
person who identifies too strongly with the survivor may take on that survivor's feelings
✔✔Possible Psychological Symptoms - ✔✔- Irrability or Anger
, - Self-blame or the blaming of others
- Isolation and withdrawal
- Fear of recurrence
- Feeling stunned, numb, or overwhelmed
- Feeling helpless
- Mood swings
- Sadness, depression, and grief
- Denial
- Concentration and memory problems
- Relationship conflicts/marital discord
✔✔Possible Physiological Symptoms - ✔✔- Loss of Appetite
- Headaches or chest pain
- Diharrea, stomach pain, or nausea
- Hyperactivity
- Increase in alchohol or drug consumption
- Nighmares
- The inability to sleep
- Fatuhire or low energy
✔✔The impact phase - ✔✔Survivors Generally do not panic and may show no signs of
emotions
✔✔The Inventory phase - ✔✔Survivors assess damage and try to locate other survitors.
Immediately follows the event
✔✔The rescue phase - ✔✔Survivors are willing to take direction from emergency
service personnel without protest
✔✔The Recovery Phase - ✔✔Survivors pull together against their rescuers. May
express anger or blame towards the rescuers
✔✔Chemical Weapons - ✔✔Common Products turned into lethal weapons
5 categories:
1. Blister agents - causes blisters and burns
2. Blood agents - absorbed into bloodstream and deprive blood cells of oxygen
3. Choking agents - attack the lungs
4. Nerve agents - affect the central nervous system
5. Riot-control agents - cause respitory distress adn tearing, are not designed to kill
Moderate Risk
✔✔Biological Weapons - ✔✔Found in nature and can also be manufactured
Exposed through:
- Inhalation
- Ingestion
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔One-Person Arm Carry - ✔✔If the rescuer is physically able and the survivor is small
Reach around the survivors back and under the knees
✔✔Pack Strap Carry - ✔✔1. Stand with your back to the survivor
2. Place the survivor's arms over your shoulders and grab the hands infront of your
chest
3. Hoist them by bending slightly fowards until their feet just cleer the floor
✔✔Two Person Carry - ✔✔Rescuer 1:
Reach under the arms and hold around the stomach. Grab the survivors let hand with
your right and vice versa (so their hands are crossed)
Rescuer 2:
Go inbetween th esruvivors legs. Grab around their legs at the knees
✔✔Chair Carry - ✔✔Rescuer 1:
Cross the hands of the survivor and grab the back of the chair
Rescuer 2:
Grab the front 2 legs of the chair
Both:
Tilt the chair back
✔✔Blanket Carry - ✔✔1. Position the survivor in the middle of a blanket (use the "log
rolling" technique)
2. With three rescuers on each side, the lead person calls out "Ready to lift on the count
of three: one two three" and the team lifts in unison
Must Lift and Lower in Unison
✔✔Log Rolling - ✔✔One person holds head and the rest of the rescuers roll the person
(like a log)
✔✔Blanket Drag - ✔✔1. Wrap in blanket
2. Grasp one end of the blanket
3. Drag
✔✔What is the ICS - ✔✔ICS is the system used by Emergency Response Agency (like
CERT) to manage emergency operations. Provides a means of managing personel,
facilities, equipment, and commnictions.
✔✔Vicarious Trauma - ✔✔Natural Reaction to exposure to a survivor's trauma. A
person who identifies too strongly with the survivor may take on that survivor's feelings
✔✔Possible Psychological Symptoms - ✔✔- Irrability or Anger
, - Self-blame or the blaming of others
- Isolation and withdrawal
- Fear of recurrence
- Feeling stunned, numb, or overwhelmed
- Feeling helpless
- Mood swings
- Sadness, depression, and grief
- Denial
- Concentration and memory problems
- Relationship conflicts/marital discord
✔✔Possible Physiological Symptoms - ✔✔- Loss of Appetite
- Headaches or chest pain
- Diharrea, stomach pain, or nausea
- Hyperactivity
- Increase in alchohol or drug consumption
- Nighmares
- The inability to sleep
- Fatuhire or low energy
✔✔The impact phase - ✔✔Survivors Generally do not panic and may show no signs of
emotions
✔✔The Inventory phase - ✔✔Survivors assess damage and try to locate other survitors.
Immediately follows the event
✔✔The rescue phase - ✔✔Survivors are willing to take direction from emergency
service personnel without protest
✔✔The Recovery Phase - ✔✔Survivors pull together against their rescuers. May
express anger or blame towards the rescuers
✔✔Chemical Weapons - ✔✔Common Products turned into lethal weapons
5 categories:
1. Blister agents - causes blisters and burns
2. Blood agents - absorbed into bloodstream and deprive blood cells of oxygen
3. Choking agents - attack the lungs
4. Nerve agents - affect the central nervous system
5. Riot-control agents - cause respitory distress adn tearing, are not designed to kill
Moderate Risk
✔✔Biological Weapons - ✔✔Found in nature and can also be manufactured
Exposed through:
- Inhalation
- Ingestion
