HCE Test Practice

Question 1

What degree level is usually awarded after completion of a 4-year program?

Accepted Answer

Bachelors

Question 2

Who discovered the idea that the mind is unconscious and conscious?

Accepted Answer

Sigment Freud

Question 3

Meaning of tactful?

Accepted Answer

ability to have an intuitive sense of what is right or appropriate

Question 4

Why is it important to follow professional behaviors as healthcare staff?

Accepted Answer

show respect to employer, patients, and co-workers

Question 5

Who was the "Father of Microbiology?"

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur

Question 6

Health care workers must safeguard the confidentiality of patient information.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Why is it important to learn your facility's policy and procedures related to confidentiality?

Accepted Answer

Info could be taken and used to damage patient financially/their reputation

Question 8

Who discovered/invented x-rays

Accepted Answer

Wilhelm Roentgen

Question 9

Who was the first female physician?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 10

What is the disease that is caused by bacteria carried by ticks?

Accepted Answer

Lyme Disease

Question 11

What does primitive mean?

Accepted Answer

ancient, early

Question 12

What type of body langauge message comes from smiling, good eye contact, and paying attention?

Accepted Answer

Positive

Question 13

What is the process of heating milk to prevent the growth of bacteria?

Accepted Answer

Pasteurization

Question 14

What does exorcise mean?

Accepted Answer

to force out

Question 15

What is a disease affecting many people at the same time?

Accepted Answer

Epidemic

Question 16

What's a virus and who discovered it?

Accepted Answer

Dmitri Ivanovski - a micro-organism that can't be seen with a microscope

Question 17

Types of herbal medicine still used today?

Accepted Answer

Atropine, Morphine, Quinine

Question 18

Who wrote the standard of ethics?

Accepted Answer

Hippocrates

Question 19

What are some rules for good hygiene?

Accepted Answer

floss, brush, bathe, breath mints, hair up, unscented deoderant, nails short and clean, conservative makeup, facial hair neatly trimmed

Question 20

What do you call a healthcare program that is attested and approved as meeting prescribed standards?

Accepted Answer

Accredited

Question 21

Who founded the Red Cross?

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton

Question 22

What is the meaning of asepsis?

Accepted Answer

the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms

Question 23

Who founded the smallpox vaccine?

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

Question 24

Who studied and recorded the anatomy of the body?

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vinci

Question 25

Meaning of empathy?

Accepted Answer

the ability to feel, share, or understand someone's feelings or experiences

Question 26

What does dissection mean?

Accepted Answer

the act or process of dividing or taking apart

Question 27

What's the period of time when books were being published and printing presses used?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 28

What vaccine helps with chickenpox?

Accepted Answer

Varivax

Question 29

Meaning of proactive?

Accepted Answer

ability to show initiative and recognize when something needs to be done

Question 30

Meaning of telemedicine:

Accepted Answer

using electronic communications to exchange medical information

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