Navy Hospital Corpsman, HCB Test 1 Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
Surgeon Steward - ANSWER ✔✔-First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
Article 16 - ANSWER ✔✔-A convenient place shall be set apart for sick or hurt men
Ship's Surgeon - ANSWER ✔✔-trained physician
surgeon's mate - ANSWER ✔✔-usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon
March 2, 1799 - ANSWER ✔✔-Congress mandated that newly commissioned sailing warships contain a
'cockpit' or sickbay
Loblolly Boys - ANSWER ✔✔-Classified as a rate 1814
maintained cleanliness
provided water and containers to hold amputated limbs
filled containers of coal to heat tar used in hemorrhage control
filled sand buckets for blood soaked floors
when did loblolly boys serve? - ANSWER ✔✔-quasi-war with france 1797-1800
barbary war 1801-1805
Loblolly Boys of Distinction - ANSWER ✔✔-John Wall (first Loblolly boy)
John Domyn (first Loblolly POW)
Joseph Anderson (first African American Loblolly boy)
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The Surgeon Steward title was used from the age of ___________ ______________ to the end of the Civil
War (_____-______) - ANSWER ✔✔-american expansion; 1820-1865
Baymen (1870s-1898) - ANSWER ✔✔-Replaces nurse, one who manned the sick bay in 1873
Apothecaries of distinction - ANSWER ✔✔-Cornelius O' Leary - father of corspmans, 38 yrs
Robert Stanley - 1st medal of honor for hospital corps
How many Medal of Honor Recipients (hospital corps)? - ANSWER ✔✔-22
how many ships are named after hospital corpsman? - ANSWER ✔✔-20
customer - ANSWER ✔✔-someone who pays for goods or services from business or a person who has a
particular quality
client - ANSWER ✔✔-anyone for whom a service requiring some degree of confidentiality is provided
palliation - ANSWER ✔✔-the relief of symptoms when cure is no longer possible, and treatment is
provided solely for comfort
phone ettiquette - ANSWER ✔✔-1. department name
2. your name
3. personalized statement
4. "how may I help you sir or m'am?"
5."anything else i can assist you with?"
moral - ANSWER ✔✔-a system of principles or standards of conduct which govern the appropriate
conduct for a person,
ethics - ANSWER ✔✔-A system of moral principles.
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