HCB Test 1 – Questions and Answers Updated 2024/2025 (100% VERIFIED)

TCRM (Time-Critical Risk Management A) Assess situation B) Balance Resources C) Communicate to Others D) Do and Debrief *Using TCRM model trains the brain to continue thinking under duress, stress, boredom Situational Awareness (SA) Degree of accuracy by which one's perception of the current environment mirrors reality SA Risk Color Guide Green - little chance of serious error Yellow - higher chance of serious error Red - very high chance of serious error Swoosh Arrow - return to good SA How To Identify Shipmates in Yellow or Red Making errors, poor communication, overloaded, fatigued, complacent, not following procedures Caduceus (kah-deuce) Rating insignia of Hospital Corps Sickbay/cockpit where sick and injured men were taken for care Surgeon Steward First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification Medal of Honor Highest military decoration (Armed forces) awarded for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) Second highest military decoration (ARMY) awarded for extraordinary heroism Navy Cross Second highest military decoration (NAVY or MARINES) awarded for extraordinary heroism Silver Star Third highest military combat decoration (Armed Forces) awarded for gallantry in action Bronze Star Awarded to any person serving in the military after 6DEC1941 who distinguishes themselves by heroic or meritorious acheivement 00:0201:18 Purpose of Article 16 States that a convenient place shall be set apart for sick or hurt men.....and some of the crew shall be appointed to attend to and serve them and keep the place clean. HCB Test 1 – Questions and Answers 2024/2025 Ship's Surgeon Trained physician Surgeon's mate Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon (held warrant officer like status). Responsibilities more equivalent to modern senior HM Congress Mandate 2 March 1799 All newly commissioned sailing warships to contain a "cockpit" for treatment of sick and injured *unofficially re-established need for enlisted medical personnel Loblolly Boys -Served porridge (loblolly) to sick/injured -Classified as official rate in 1814 -Maintained cleanliness -provided water/containers to hold amputated limbs -heated tar for hemorrhage control -Filled buckets of sand to use for slip control with bloodstained decks Dates Loblolly Boys Served: (Quasi-War with France (first Barbary War) Loblolly Boys of Distinction John Wall (first one) John Domyn (first POW) Joseph Anderson (first African-American) Surgeon Steward -title used (American expansion--end of Civil War) -first seen in Navy pay charts in 1841 -Ranked second in seniority among shipboard petty officers -first enlisted rate requiring specific qualifications Nurse - -Applied to junior enlisted medical personnel -Served concurrently with Surgeon Steward Baymen -Early 1870s-1898 -replaced title of "nurse" -Defined as "one who manned the sickbay" Apothecary - -14th century term for "pharmacist" -consolidated to one senior petty officer in March 1869 -required vast knowledge, in charge of anesthesia, mixing/distributing medications, correspondence, logistics, and training of Baymen Apothecaries of Distinction Cornelius O'Leary and Robert Stanley Bill signed by President McKinley, 17 June 1898 Called for dramatic improvements to armed forces in response to threat of war *led to United States Navy Hospital Corps *Established Hospital Steward (CPO) * Hospital Apprentice Third Class (PO3) *Hospital Apprentice *Pharmacists Pharmacist Establishment SECNAV appointed 25 senior apothecaries as pharmacists *Cornelius O'Leary had 38 years experience *Robert Stanley, first Hospital Corps MoH recipient WAVES = Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service *Commissioned during WWII Bethesda Naval Hospital Flagship of Navy Medicine since 11 November 1940 First Hospital Corps School Portsmouth, VA, 15 DEC 1902 *graduated 29 Hospital Apprentices 1916 Expansion Congress authorized Hospital Corps to 3.5% of all Navy/Marine Corps forces Secondary Hospital Corps School 1917, Great Lakes, IL *closed in 1921, but reopened two decades later to facilitate with WWII Tertiary Hospital Corps School 1928, San Diego, CA Hospital Corps School for WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) 12 Jan 1944, commissioned at US Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland In 1948... Hospital Corps was brought into the regular Navy by Congress Dental Technician (DT) Rating 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? 1997, NHCS Great Lakes became Navy's sole training facility When did medical training move to Fort Sam Houston? 2005, Army, Navy, and Air Force medical training shifted to San Antonio, TX HM "A" Course Consolidated with Air Force... Air Force Aerospace Medical Assistant Course, convened April 2011 Total Medal of Honor Awards 22 (half of all MoH's awarded to Dept. of Navy) Total Navy Cross Awards 182 Total Distinguished Service Medals 33 Total Silver Star Awards 946 Total Bronze Star Awards 1582 Number of ships named after HMs 20 Communication Skills Communication Inter-personal process of people relating to each other through conversation, gestures, appearance, behavior, writing, or silence Communication Skills Active Listening Listening carefully to what they are saying and ask questions to get to the root of their requests Communication Skills Contact Point Physical location to which a customer goes to obtain a service, i.e. sick bay, dining facility, post office, etc Communication Skills Attitude The tendency to move toward a situation or away from it