Documentation and Ethics
This principle states that if you did not write it down, it didn’t happen.
Record keeping or documentation
This term refers to the legal responsibility to perform duties in a reasonable manner.
Liability
If an athletic trainer keeps accurate paperwork, they avoid this legal issue.
Liability from assumption of risk
This individual is responsible for setting a good example of behavior for athletes.
Coach
This individual is known as the “Father of Sports Medicine.”
Herodicus
Keeping detailed records helps establish this for athletes who participate in sports.
Assumption of risk
A wrongful act resulting in injury to another person or property is called this.
Tort
This is the process of reducing the potential for injury in sports.
Risk management
Athletes must sign these forms before participating in sports to acknowledge risks. (Name 2)
Assumption of risk forms, emergency consent forms, pre-participation physicals
The first National Athletic Training Clinic was held by this organization.
National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA)
Failure to provide reasonable care, resulting in injury, is referred to as this.
Negligence
This federal regulation enacted in 1996 protects sensitive health information.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
This legal standard measures the care and skill expected of professionals in similar situations.
Standard of care
This allows patients to make decisions about their healthcare and providers.
Patients' Bill of Rights
The emergence of physical therapy in the U.S. was influenced by these two historic events.
World War I and the polio epidemic
This written standard for behavior, morals, and conduct guides professionals in sports medicine.
Code of ethics
This 1974 law safeguards student education records.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
This type of insurance is essential for sports medicine professionals to protect against malpractice claims.
Malpractice insurance
Athletic trainers should develop this plan to avoid legal issues during emergencies.
emergency action plan (EAP)
This individual is known as the “Father of Medicine.”
Hippocrates
What is Autonomy
Respect for the patient's right to self-determination
What is Beneficence
The duty to 'do good'
What is Non-Maleficence
the duty to 'not do bad'
What is Justice
To treat all people equally and equitably.
What is Battery
Involves hitting a player or inappropriately touching an athlete