Athletic Trainer's Duty of Care, Negligence, and Injury Prevention, Exams of Nursing

Download Athletic Trainer's Duty of Care, Negligence, and Injury Prevention and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! Care & Prevention of Athletic Injuries Questions and Answers Domains of an AT - Correct answer Prevention, examination, immediate/emergency care, therapeutic intervention, administration Duty of care - Correct answer The official job responsibility of an AT is to provide care and to protect the well-being of the athlete. This includes caring for campus, fields, office, the ATR, equipment, and any part of the environment that the AT can control Negligence - Correct answer legal wrong in which the AT fails to act as a reasonable and prudent person would act in a similar situation. To do nothing. Gross Negligence - Correct answer Gross negligence is a heightened degree of negligence representing an extreme departure from the ordinary standard of care. Falling between intent to do wrongful harm and ordinary negligence, gross negligence is defined as willful, wanton, and reckless conduct affecting the life or property or another. Malpractice - Correct answer Act of omission; fails to act or fails to act prudently. Act of comission; acts outside scope of practice or does something that shouldn't have been done. An overreaction. Proximate cause - Correct answer Behavior or actions that could lead to potential harm to another. cephal/o - Correct answer head derm/o - Correct answer skin my/o - Correct answer muscle oste/o - Correct answer bone pulm/o; pulmon/o - Correct answer lungs (pneum/o sometimes means air or gas) thromb/o - Correct answer clot chrom - Correct answer color gastr/o - Correct answer stomach myel/o - Correct answer spinal cord phag - Correct answer eat or swallow synov/i - Correct answer synovial fluid, joint, membrane vas/o - Correct answer vessel or duct enter/o - Correct answer intestines (usually small) hemo/hemato - Correct answer blood Onych/o - Correct answer nail phleb/o - Correct answer vein A-, an- - Correct answer without ante- - Correct answer before ab- - Correct answer away from ec-, ect-, ecto- - Correct answer out, outside ad- - Correct answer toward, near -itis - Correct answer inflammation end/o- - Correct answer in, within mon/o- - Correct answer one peri- - Correct answer surrounding Insurance levels - Correct answer Basic, supplemental ($1-$25k), secondary (aka: gap insurance; 25k-90k), catastrophic (>95k) (NCAA buys catastrophic insurance for all schools) How many CEUs are needed each year to maintain certification? - Correct answer 50 Types of budgets - Correct answer Zero-based, fixed, variable, lump sum Zero-based Budget - Correct answer New budget each year. Requires justification of all expenditures and prioritization. Complicated. Can use the predicted budget for several years. Fixed Budget - Correct answer Month-to-month to produce annual budget. Allows flexibility but difficult because AT department doesn't generate money. Varible Budget - Correct answer Allows modification of future expenditures. Based on revenues and expenditures. Lump Sum Budget - Correct answer All of the money is given out at the beginning of the year. Can be used however you want, but that's all you get. Steps to purchasing supplies - Correct answer 1. Request quotation (want at least 3 bids) 2. Negotiations 3. Requisitions 4. Purchase Order (P.O.) (money is taken out and put in a holding account 5. Receiving 6. Accounts Payable Inventory Management - Correct answer Conduct inventory every 3-6 months. Storage should be secured. Preparticipation Physical Exam - Correct answer Essential for all athletes Within 6 weeks of sport starting Must be cleared by a medical doctor or nurse practitioner Body types - Correct answer Endomorph, mesomorph, ectomorph Endomorph - Correct answer high fat content with stocky build Mesomorph - Correct answer Low fat content with muscular build Ectomorph - Correct answer low fat content with slight body build Adult respiration rate - Correct answer 12-20 breaths per minute Child respiration rate - Correct answer 20-25 breaths per minute Range of motion deficit - Correct answer greater than 5 degrees outside of normal values Bowel sounds - Correct answer should be heard within 5 seconds of auscultation Anatomical Planes - Correct answer 1. coronal/frontal (vertical cut into front and back halves) 2. transverse (horizontal cut into upper and lower) 3. sagittal (vertical cut into left and right halves) Proximal - Correct answer nearest the trunk or point of origin Contralateral - Correct answer on the opposite side of the body Bilateral - Correct answer both sides Ipsilateral - Correct answer on the same side of the body Dorsal - Correct answer relating to the back; posterior Ventral - Correct answer Belly region Palmar - Correct answer pertaining to the palm of the hand Plantar - Correct answer bottom of foot Layers of skin (Superficial to deep) - Correct answer epidermis, dermis, hypodermis (subcutaneous) Purpose of bones - Correct answer protection, structure, mineral reservoir (mainly Ca, P, Mg), hormone production, red blood cell formation, stiff structure, promotes movement, metabolically active Purpose of muscles - Correct answer Create movement. Have origin and insertion. Supplied by nerves Tendons - Correct answer Connect muscles to bone. Weakest part of muscle at junction. Origin side is normally thinner. Ligaments - Correct answer Connect bones to bones. Collateral on outside, cruciate on inside Functional classification of joints - Correct answer Diarthrodial, amphiarthrodial, synarthrodial Diarthrodial - Correct answer A freely movable joint. A diarthrodial joint is one in which the adjoining bone ends are covered with a thin cartilaginous sheet and joined by a joint capsule lined by a synovial membrane, which secretes synovial fluid Amphiarthrodial - Correct answer A slightly movable joint. An amphiarthrodial joint is one having a fibrocartilaginous disk between the bony surfaces (symphysis), such as the symphysis pubis; or one with a ligament uniting the two bones (syndesmosis), such as the tibiofibular articulation. Synarthrodial - Correct answer An immovable joint. In fibrous joints (synarthrodial joint) the bones are joined by fibrous tissue, namely dense fibrous connective tissue, and no joint cavity is present. The amount of movement allowed depends on the length of the connective tissue fibers uniting the bones. What are the types of diarthrodial joints? - Correct answer 1. Gliding 2. Hinge 3. Pivot 4. Condyloid 5. Saddle 6. Ball and Socket