HCB Shipboard Exam with 147
Questions And 100% Correct
Answers
True or False: Info on the SF 510 are written and filed in chronological order correct answer:
True
True or False: All nursing note entries are made using a red pen correct answer: False; All
nursing note entries are made using a BLACK pen
Who is each nursing note entry signed by? correct answer: The person who wrote it
What are the two formats for writing nursing notes? correct answer: Black format and charting
by exception
SF 558 correct answer: Emergency Care and Treatment:
The alternate form from the SF 600 used to document all care given to patients in the ER
DD Form 792 correct answer: Twenty-Four Hour Intake and Output Worksheet:
,Used to document an accurate account of the patient's fluid intake and output over a 24 hour
period
What 3 elements are required for the transmission of infectious agents within a healthcare
setting? correct answer: A source (reservoir) of infectious agents, a susceptible host with a portal
of entry receptive to the agent, and a mode of transportation for the agent
Airborne correct answer: Infectious agents that remain infectious over long distances when
suspended in the air
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) correct answer: A federal agency of the U.S.
Government that provides facilities and services for the investigation, identification, prevention,
and control of disease
Cohorting correct answer: Practice of grouping patients infected or colonized with the same
infectious agents together to confine their care to one area and prevent contact with susceptible
patients (cohorting patients)
Droplet correct answer: A small drop. May transmit infections while airborne to others
Host correct answer: A person or other living organism that can be infected by an infectious
agent under natural conditions
, Incubation period correct answer: The time interval b/w initial contact with the infectious
organism and the first appearance of symptoms associated with the infection
Reservoir correct answer: Any person, animal, plant, soil or substance in which an infectious
agent normally lives and multiplies
What is tier 1 of isolation precautions? correct answer: Standard precautions
What is tier 2 of isolation precautions? correct answer: Isolation precautions
What are the different categories of isolation precautions? correct answer: Contact, droplet, and
airborne precautions
What is the first thing you should do when isolating a patient? correct answer: Verify doctor's
orders
What are the five steps of the nursing process? correct answer: Assessment, nursing diagnosis,
planning, implementation, evaluation
What are the two steps of the nursing assesment? correct answer: 1. Collection and verification
of data from primary and secondary sources by using subjective and objective data
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