HOSPITAL CORPSMAN BASIC (HCB
101) EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Surgeon Steward - Answer-- Ranked second in seniority among ship petty officers
- First enlisted rate that requires specific qualifications.
Surgeon Steward was first seen in the Navy pay charts in... - Answer-1841
Nurse (1861-1873) - Answer-- Applied to junior enlisted medical personnel
- Served concurrently with Surgeon Steward
Apothecary - Answer-- Pharmacist
- Invaluable to medical department for anesthesia, logistics, and training Baymen
Apothecaries of distinction - Answer-Cornelius O'Leary and Robert Stanley
When is the hospital corpsman's birthday? - Answer-June 17, 1898
Communication - Answer-A highly complicated inter-personal process of people relating
to each other through conversation, gestures, writing, ext.
customer - Answer-someone who buys goods or services/a person who has a particular
quality
Client - Answer-Anyone for whom a service requiring some degree of confidentiality
Active listening - Answer-Listening and asking questions
Contact point - Answer-The physical location to which a customer goes to obtain a
service
Attitude - Answer-The tendency to move toward a situation or away from it
Skill - Answer-the ability to do something well
Verbal - Answer-Speaking in a good tone to clearly convey message
Nonverbal - Answer-Facial expressions, physical proximity, gestures, and voice tone
Acceptance - Answer-Patient found peace with diagnosis
Anger - Answer-Looks for cause or blame
, Bargaining - Answer-The wish for extension of life, or relief of pain
Bereavement - Answer-State of having suffered a loss
Coping - Answer-Adjusting to or solving challenges
Denial - Answer-Person can't believe diagnosis
Depression - Answer-Sense of great loss of the impending loss of being
Empathy - Answer-Ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand their
feelings
Grief - Answer-Emotional feeling of pain as a reaction to loss
Hospice - Answer-Philosophy of care for the dying and their families
Morgue - Answer-A place where dead bodies are kept
Mourning - Answer-Social expressions of grief
Mortality - Answer-Number of deaths in a population
palliation - Answer-the relief of symptoms when cure is no longer possible, and
treatment is provided solely for comfort
Postmortem - Answer-After death
Sympathy - Answer-An affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things
wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other
Terminal illness - Answer-Leading ultimately to death; an unhealthy condition of the
body. There is no reasonable expectation of recovery.
Rigor mortis - Answer-the stiffening of the body after death
How many Medal of Honor recipients from the Hospital Corps? - Answer-22
What are the 5 stages of grief? - Answer-denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance
How many Navy Crosses? - Answer-182
How many Distinguished Service Medals? - Answer-33
101) EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Surgeon Steward - Answer-- Ranked second in seniority among ship petty officers
- First enlisted rate that requires specific qualifications.
Surgeon Steward was first seen in the Navy pay charts in... - Answer-1841
Nurse (1861-1873) - Answer-- Applied to junior enlisted medical personnel
- Served concurrently with Surgeon Steward
Apothecary - Answer-- Pharmacist
- Invaluable to medical department for anesthesia, logistics, and training Baymen
Apothecaries of distinction - Answer-Cornelius O'Leary and Robert Stanley
When is the hospital corpsman's birthday? - Answer-June 17, 1898
Communication - Answer-A highly complicated inter-personal process of people relating
to each other through conversation, gestures, writing, ext.
customer - Answer-someone who buys goods or services/a person who has a particular
quality
Client - Answer-Anyone for whom a service requiring some degree of confidentiality
Active listening - Answer-Listening and asking questions
Contact point - Answer-The physical location to which a customer goes to obtain a
service
Attitude - Answer-The tendency to move toward a situation or away from it
Skill - Answer-the ability to do something well
Verbal - Answer-Speaking in a good tone to clearly convey message
Nonverbal - Answer-Facial expressions, physical proximity, gestures, and voice tone
Acceptance - Answer-Patient found peace with diagnosis
Anger - Answer-Looks for cause or blame
, Bargaining - Answer-The wish for extension of life, or relief of pain
Bereavement - Answer-State of having suffered a loss
Coping - Answer-Adjusting to or solving challenges
Denial - Answer-Person can't believe diagnosis
Depression - Answer-Sense of great loss of the impending loss of being
Empathy - Answer-Ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand their
feelings
Grief - Answer-Emotional feeling of pain as a reaction to loss
Hospice - Answer-Philosophy of care for the dying and their families
Morgue - Answer-A place where dead bodies are kept
Mourning - Answer-Social expressions of grief
Mortality - Answer-Number of deaths in a population
palliation - Answer-the relief of symptoms when cure is no longer possible, and
treatment is provided solely for comfort
Postmortem - Answer-After death
Sympathy - Answer-An affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things
wherein whatever affects one similarly affects the other
Terminal illness - Answer-Leading ultimately to death; an unhealthy condition of the
body. There is no reasonable expectation of recovery.
Rigor mortis - Answer-the stiffening of the body after death
How many Medal of Honor recipients from the Hospital Corps? - Answer-22
What are the 5 stages of grief? - Answer-denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance
How many Navy Crosses? - Answer-182
How many Distinguished Service Medals? - Answer-33
