Health Knowledge Bowl (SkillsUSA)
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What is the ammount of money that is available to you after payroll deductions have been
taken out of your salary? - Correct Answer- Net income
What s the most prescribed antidepressant in the 1990s? - Correct Answer- Prozac
The process for getting permission before conducting a healthcare intervention is called: -
Correct Answer- Informed consent
What is the term for the principle that one should not cause harm or do evil? - Correct
Answer- Maleficence
What is the written documentation that serves as a legal document and record of the care
given to the patient? - Correct Answer- Patient CHART or record
Which body system has the largest sensory organ and regulates fluid and blodd loss? -
Correct Answer- Integumentary system
What Federal Act requires establishment of national standards for electronic health care
transactions and identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and emplayers? - Correct
Answer- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Term used to describe innoffensive or mild expressiong in place of one that may offend or
embrrass someone - Correct Answer- Euphemism
Term used to describe an informal information exchange session designed to improve team
performance and effectiveness, an after action review - Correct Answer- Debriefing
Edward Jenner sucessfully developed and introducced this vaccine in 1798. - Correct
Answer- Small pox vaccine
, Accordidng to the CDC, the leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2011 is: - Correct Answer-
Heart disease
What is the general name for the common Tylenol? - Correct Answer- Acetaminophen
You work 37 hours per week and earn $12.50 per hour. Your employer deducts 13.0% from
your gross income for federal tax. What is your net income for one week? - Correct Answer-
402.38
Any message that aids a communication in evaluating that success of frevious message. The
responses of the reciever that shape and alter subsequent messages from the source. - Correct
Answer- Feedback
How many bones are in each adult hand? - Correct Answer- 27
What is the general term for the substance that plays a major role in many allergic reactions,
dilating blood vessels and making vessels abnormally permeable - Correct Answer-
Histamine
Using military notation what is the correct way to write 9:34 pm? - Correct Answer- 2134
The term for "bad practice" and is commonly called professional negligence - Correct
Answer- Malpractice
A systematic, delberative and interactive process by which nurses use critical thinking to
collect, validate, analyze and synthesize the collected information in order to make judgment
about the health status - Correct Answer- Assessment
The vessels that carry blood from body to the heart are known as ________ - Correct
Answer- Veins
According to Phycholgist Jean Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Devolopment, the stage that is
characterized by egocentrise and in which the child is concerned with hte development of
language is the _____________ stage - Correct Answer- Preoperational stage
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What is the ammount of money that is available to you after payroll deductions have been
taken out of your salary? - Correct Answer- Net income
What s the most prescribed antidepressant in the 1990s? - Correct Answer- Prozac
The process for getting permission before conducting a healthcare intervention is called: -
Correct Answer- Informed consent
What is the term for the principle that one should not cause harm or do evil? - Correct
Answer- Maleficence
What is the written documentation that serves as a legal document and record of the care
given to the patient? - Correct Answer- Patient CHART or record
Which body system has the largest sensory organ and regulates fluid and blodd loss? -
Correct Answer- Integumentary system
What Federal Act requires establishment of national standards for electronic health care
transactions and identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and emplayers? - Correct
Answer- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Term used to describe innoffensive or mild expressiong in place of one that may offend or
embrrass someone - Correct Answer- Euphemism
Term used to describe an informal information exchange session designed to improve team
performance and effectiveness, an after action review - Correct Answer- Debriefing
Edward Jenner sucessfully developed and introducced this vaccine in 1798. - Correct
Answer- Small pox vaccine
, Accordidng to the CDC, the leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2011 is: - Correct Answer-
Heart disease
What is the general name for the common Tylenol? - Correct Answer- Acetaminophen
You work 37 hours per week and earn $12.50 per hour. Your employer deducts 13.0% from
your gross income for federal tax. What is your net income for one week? - Correct Answer-
402.38
Any message that aids a communication in evaluating that success of frevious message. The
responses of the reciever that shape and alter subsequent messages from the source. - Correct
Answer- Feedback
How many bones are in each adult hand? - Correct Answer- 27
What is the general term for the substance that plays a major role in many allergic reactions,
dilating blood vessels and making vessels abnormally permeable - Correct Answer-
Histamine
Using military notation what is the correct way to write 9:34 pm? - Correct Answer- 2134
The term for "bad practice" and is commonly called professional negligence - Correct
Answer- Malpractice
A systematic, delberative and interactive process by which nurses use critical thinking to
collect, validate, analyze and synthesize the collected information in order to make judgment
about the health status - Correct Answer- Assessment
The vessels that carry blood from body to the heart are known as ________ - Correct
Answer- Veins
According to Phycholgist Jean Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Devolopment, the stage that is
characterized by egocentrise and in which the child is concerned with hte development of
language is the _____________ stage - Correct Answer- Preoperational stage
