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HCB TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSTCRM (Time-Critical Risk Management - Answers- 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) - Answers- Degree of accuracy by which one's perception
of the current environment mirrors reality
SA Risk Color Guide - Answers- 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 - Answers- Making errors, poor
communication, overloaded, fatigued, complacent, not following procedures
Caduceus (kah-deuce) - Answers- Rating insignia of Hospital Corps
Sickbay/cockpit - Answers- where sick and injured men were taken for care
Surgeon Steward - Answers- First enlisted rate requiring specific qualification
Medal of Honor - Answers- 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) - Answers- Second highest military decoration
(ARMY) awarded for extraordinary heroism
Navy Cross - Answers- Second highest military decoration (NAVY or MARINES)
awarded for extraordinary heroism
Silver Star - Answers- Third highest military combat decoration (Armed Forces)
awarded for gallantry in action
Bronze Star - Answers- Awarded to any person serving in the military after 6DEC1941
who distinguishes themselves by heroic or meritorious acheivement
Purpose of Article 16 - Answers- 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.
Ship's Surgeon - Answers- Trained physician
, Surgeon's mate - Answers- Usually a physician but subordinate to surgeon (held
warrant officer like status). Responsibilities more equivalent to modern senior HM
Congress Mandate 2 March 1799 - Answers- 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 - Answers- -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: - Answers- 1797-1800 (Quasi-War with France
1801-1805 (first Barbary War)
Loblolly Boys of Distinction - Answers- John Wall (first one)
John Domyn (first POW)
Joseph Anderson (first African-American)
Surgeon Steward - Answers- -title used 1820-1865 (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 - Answers- -1861-1873
-Applied to junior enlisted medical personnel
-Served concurrently with Surgeon Steward
Baymen - Answers- -Early 1870s-1898
-replaced title of "nurse"
-Defined as "one who manned the sickbay"
Apothecary - Answers- -1866-1898
-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 - Answers- Cornelius O'Leary and Robert Stanley
Bill signed by President McKinley, 17 June 1898 - Answers- Called for dramatic
improvements to armed forces in response to threat of war
*led to United States Navy Hospital Corps
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