HCB PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Hospital Corps School for WAVES
(Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) - Answer-12 Jan 1944,
commissioned at US Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
In 1948... - Answer-Hospital Corps was brought into the regular Navy by Congress
Dental Technician (DT) Rating - Answer-Established 12 Dec 1947, rating change
became effective 02 Apr 1948.
*Merged with Hospital Corps 01 Oct 2005
When/where were HM 'A' Schools consolidated? - Answer-1997, NHCS Great Lakes
became Navy's sole training facility
When did medical training move to Fort Sam Houston? - Answer-2005, Army, Navy,
and Air Force medical training shifted to San Antonio, TX
HM "A" Course Consolidated with Air Force... - Answer-Air Force Aerospace Medical
Assistant Course, convened April 2011
Total Medal of Honor Awards - Answer-22 (half of all MoH's awarded to Dept. of Navy)
Total Navy Cross Awards - Answer-182
Total Distinguished Service Medals - Answer-33
Total Silver Star Awards - Answer-946
Total Bronze Star Awards - Answer-1582
Number of ships named after HMs - Answer-20
Communication Skills
Communication - Answer-Inter-personal process of people relating to each other
through conversation, gestures, appearance, behavior, writing, or silence
Communication Skills
Active Listening - Answer-Listening carefully to what they are saying and ask questions
to get to the root of their requests
Communication Skills
, Contact Point - Answer-Physical location to which a customer goes to obtain a service,
i.e. sick bay, dining facility, post office, etc
Communication Skills
Attitude - Answer-The tendency to move toward a situation or away from it
Communication Skills
Skill - Answer-The ability to do something well as a result of talent, training, or practice,
or a combination of these
Communication Skills
Verbal - Answer-Speaking in a good tone, volume, and intensity will help to clearly
convey your message
Communication Skills
Nonverbal - Answer-Facial expressions, physical proximity, gestures, and voice tone
are all part of your interaction
5 Stages of Grief - Answer-Denial- acts as though nothing has happened and refuses to
accept the fact of the loss
Anger - expresses resistance and intense anger at a religious deity, or someone else in
the situation
Bargaining - tries to prevent it from happening, makes promises to themselves, loved
ones, or religious deities to prevent the outcome
Depression - realizes the full impact of the loss.
Acceptance - Incorporated the loss into life and finds ways to move forward
Bereavement - Answer-state of having suffered a loss by death
Coping - Answer-Adjusting to or solving challenges
Depression - Answer-Sense of great loss of the impending loss of being
Empathy - Answer-The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the
other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions
Grief - Answer-The emotional feeling of pain and distress that a person experiences as
a reaction to loss
Hospice - Answer-Philosophy of care for the dying and their families
Morgue - Answer-A place where the bodies of deceased persons are kept until
identified and claimed by relatives or released for burial
Mourning - Answer-The outward social expressions of grief and the behavior associated
with loss
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Hospital Corps School for WAVES
(Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) - Answer-12 Jan 1944,
commissioned at US Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
In 1948... - Answer-Hospital Corps was brought into the regular Navy by Congress
Dental Technician (DT) Rating - Answer-Established 12 Dec 1947, rating change
became effective 02 Apr 1948.
*Merged with Hospital Corps 01 Oct 2005
When/where were HM 'A' Schools consolidated? - Answer-1997, NHCS Great Lakes
became Navy's sole training facility
When did medical training move to Fort Sam Houston? - Answer-2005, Army, Navy,
and Air Force medical training shifted to San Antonio, TX
HM "A" Course Consolidated with Air Force... - Answer-Air Force Aerospace Medical
Assistant Course, convened April 2011
Total Medal of Honor Awards - Answer-22 (half of all MoH's awarded to Dept. of Navy)
Total Navy Cross Awards - Answer-182
Total Distinguished Service Medals - Answer-33
Total Silver Star Awards - Answer-946
Total Bronze Star Awards - Answer-1582
Number of ships named after HMs - Answer-20
Communication Skills
Communication - Answer-Inter-personal process of people relating to each other
through conversation, gestures, appearance, behavior, writing, or silence
Communication Skills
Active Listening - Answer-Listening carefully to what they are saying and ask questions
to get to the root of their requests
Communication Skills
, Contact Point - Answer-Physical location to which a customer goes to obtain a service,
i.e. sick bay, dining facility, post office, etc
Communication Skills
Attitude - Answer-The tendency to move toward a situation or away from it
Communication Skills
Skill - Answer-The ability to do something well as a result of talent, training, or practice,
or a combination of these
Communication Skills
Verbal - Answer-Speaking in a good tone, volume, and intensity will help to clearly
convey your message
Communication Skills
Nonverbal - Answer-Facial expressions, physical proximity, gestures, and voice tone
are all part of your interaction
5 Stages of Grief - Answer-Denial- acts as though nothing has happened and refuses to
accept the fact of the loss
Anger - expresses resistance and intense anger at a religious deity, or someone else in
the situation
Bargaining - tries to prevent it from happening, makes promises to themselves, loved
ones, or religious deities to prevent the outcome
Depression - realizes the full impact of the loss.
Acceptance - Incorporated the loss into life and finds ways to move forward
Bereavement - Answer-state of having suffered a loss by death
Coping - Answer-Adjusting to or solving challenges
Depression - Answer-Sense of great loss of the impending loss of being
Empathy - Answer-The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the
other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions
Grief - Answer-The emotional feeling of pain and distress that a person experiences as
a reaction to loss
Hospice - Answer-Philosophy of care for the dying and their families
Morgue - Answer-A place where the bodies of deceased persons are kept until
identified and claimed by relatives or released for burial
Mourning - Answer-The outward social expressions of grief and the behavior associated
with loss
