SHIPBOARD HCB EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What bedpan is made of metal or hard plastic - Answer-Regular
What bedpan is designed for patients with lower extremity fractures - Answer-Fracture
What is the very first step for making an unoccupied bed - Answer-Perform hand
hygiene and apply clean gloves
Often used to widen the base of support and decrease stress on the opposite lower
extremity - Answer-Cane
What degree should the patient flex the elbow when using a cane - Answer-15 to 30
degrees
Canes should support _____ to ______% of patients weight - Answer-15 to 25%
When are axillary crutches used? - Answer-Temporary use (acute injuries)
Axillary crutches require.... - Answer-Significant upper body strength
When are forearm support crutches used? - Answer-For active patients with severe leg
weakness
What degree should elbow bend at when using axillary crutches - Answer-20 to 30
How many gait patterns are there - Answer-6
How should an injured patient use the stairs - Answer-Up with the good
How should an injured patient go down the stairs - Answer-Down with the bad
How many types of walkers are there - Answer-5
What degree should the elbow be at for the walker - Answer-20
A person or animal that harbors A specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible
clinical Disease - Answer-Carrier
An illness due to a specific infectious agent or it's toxic products that arises through
transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person - Answer-
Communicable disease
, The occurrence, in a defined community or region, of cases of an illness with a
frequency clearly in excess of normal expectancy - Answer-Epidemic
A person or other living animal that affords a substance or lodgment to an infectious
agent under natural conditions - Answer-Host
Is the time interval between initial contact with the infectious organisms in the first
appearance of symptoms associated with the infection - Answer-Incubation period
The entry and development or multiplication of an infectious agent in the body of
persons or animals - Answer-Infection
An organism that is capable of producing infection or infectious disease - Answer-
Infectious agent
The standard method for detecting latent TB infection since the 1930s - Answer-
Mantoux tuberculin skin test
An infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other healthcare facility in whom the
infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission - Answer-Nosocomial
Indicates any person, animal, arthropod, plant, substance or combination of these in
which an infection agent normally lives and multiplies on which it depends primarily for
survival - Answer-Reservoir
APerson or animal not possessing sufficient resistance against a particular infectious
agent to prevent contracting infection or disease when exposed to the agent - Answer-
Susceptible
A contagious disease transmitted by sexual contact - Answer-Sexually transmitted
infection
A liver infection caused by the hepatitis _____ virus and is highly contagious - Answer-
Hepatitis A
What is the incubation period for hepatitis A - Answer-15-50 days
A liver infection caused by the hepatitis ____ virus and is transmitted when blood
semen or another body fluid from the person infected with the hepatitis _____ virus
enters the body of someone who is not infected - Answer-Hepatitis B
What is the incubation period for hepatitis B - Answer-90 days ( 60-150 days after
exposure to HBV)
A liver infection caused by hepatitis ____virus and is a blood borne virus - Answer-
Hepatitis C
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
What bedpan is made of metal or hard plastic - Answer-Regular
What bedpan is designed for patients with lower extremity fractures - Answer-Fracture
What is the very first step for making an unoccupied bed - Answer-Perform hand
hygiene and apply clean gloves
Often used to widen the base of support and decrease stress on the opposite lower
extremity - Answer-Cane
What degree should the patient flex the elbow when using a cane - Answer-15 to 30
degrees
Canes should support _____ to ______% of patients weight - Answer-15 to 25%
When are axillary crutches used? - Answer-Temporary use (acute injuries)
Axillary crutches require.... - Answer-Significant upper body strength
When are forearm support crutches used? - Answer-For active patients with severe leg
weakness
What degree should elbow bend at when using axillary crutches - Answer-20 to 30
How many gait patterns are there - Answer-6
How should an injured patient use the stairs - Answer-Up with the good
How should an injured patient go down the stairs - Answer-Down with the bad
How many types of walkers are there - Answer-5
What degree should the elbow be at for the walker - Answer-20
A person or animal that harbors A specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible
clinical Disease - Answer-Carrier
An illness due to a specific infectious agent or it's toxic products that arises through
transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person - Answer-
Communicable disease
, The occurrence, in a defined community or region, of cases of an illness with a
frequency clearly in excess of normal expectancy - Answer-Epidemic
A person or other living animal that affords a substance or lodgment to an infectious
agent under natural conditions - Answer-Host
Is the time interval between initial contact with the infectious organisms in the first
appearance of symptoms associated with the infection - Answer-Incubation period
The entry and development or multiplication of an infectious agent in the body of
persons or animals - Answer-Infection
An organism that is capable of producing infection or infectious disease - Answer-
Infectious agent
The standard method for detecting latent TB infection since the 1930s - Answer-
Mantoux tuberculin skin test
An infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other healthcare facility in whom the
infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission - Answer-Nosocomial
Indicates any person, animal, arthropod, plant, substance or combination of these in
which an infection agent normally lives and multiplies on which it depends primarily for
survival - Answer-Reservoir
APerson or animal not possessing sufficient resistance against a particular infectious
agent to prevent contracting infection or disease when exposed to the agent - Answer-
Susceptible
A contagious disease transmitted by sexual contact - Answer-Sexually transmitted
infection
A liver infection caused by the hepatitis _____ virus and is highly contagious - Answer-
Hepatitis A
What is the incubation period for hepatitis A - Answer-15-50 days
A liver infection caused by the hepatitis ____ virus and is transmitted when blood
semen or another body fluid from the person infected with the hepatitis _____ virus
enters the body of someone who is not infected - Answer-Hepatitis B
What is the incubation period for hepatitis B - Answer-90 days ( 60-150 days after
exposure to HBV)
A liver infection caused by hepatitis ____virus and is a blood borne virus - Answer-
Hepatitis C
