Sports Medicine Team
This healthcare professional helps prevent, evaluate, treat, and rehabilitate athletic injuries.
What is an Athletic Trainer?
This term describes the legal limits of what a healthcare professional is permitted to do based on education, credentials, and state law.
What is Scope of Practice?
An Athletic Trainer sees a dangerous object near the sideline, does nothing, and an athlete later trips over it.
What is Nonfeasance?
In most public high school settings, student athletic injury records maintained by a school-employed Athletic Trainer are generally protected by this law.
What is FERPA?
This organization develops safety performance standards for athletic equipment such as football, baseball, and lacrosse helmets.
What is NOCSAE?
This member of the sports medicine team generally has final medical authority for return-to-play decisions after a significant injury.
Who is the Team Physician?
This term describes the level of care expected from a reasonably prudent professional with similar training.
What is Standard of Care?
A coach gives an athlete prescription medication from the coach’s personal supply.
What is Malfeasance?
A college recruiter asks for a high school athlete’s MRI results, but no authorization has been given. This is what the Athletic Trainer should do.
What is refuse to release the information without appropriate authorization?
A helmet fails during normal use because of a manufacturing defect and injures an athlete. This legal concept is most directly involved.
What is Product Liability?
This organization administers the national certification exam for Athletic Trainers.
What is the BOC?
These are the four elements of negligence, in order.
What are Duty, Breach, Causation, and Damages?
An Athletic Trainer appropriately decides to tape an ankle but applies the tape incorrectly and causes injury.
What is Misfeasance?
This legal concept means athletes acknowledge and accept the known and inherent risks of participating in a sport.
What is Assumption of Risk?
A coach drills extra holes into a certified football helmet. The change may affect these three things.
What are the helmet’s certification, warranty, and legal liability?
Athletic Trainers complete this throughout their careers to stay current with accepted professional practices and evidence-based care.
What is continuing education?
An Athletic Trainer’s responsibility to provide reasonable care to an athlete represents this element of negligence.
What is Duty of Care?
An Athletic Trainer knows an athlete needs an injury evaluation but ignores the athlete and does not act.
What is Nonfeasance?
True or False: Signing an assumption-of-risk form means an athlete can never sue for an injury.
What is False?
Evaluating an ankle injury and providing appropriate immediate care is generally considered this for an Athletic Trainer.
What is within the Athletic Trainer’s Scope of Practice?
Coaches should not make final medical decisions because these professionals have the education, credentials, and responsibility to evaluate an athlete’s health.
Who are qualified healthcare professionals?
This law-related term refers to the deadline for filing a lawsuit after an injury.
What is the Statute of Limitations?
An Athletic Trainer performs an appropriate treatment but performs it incorrectly, making the injury worse.
What is Misfeasance?
A reporter asks an Athletic Trainer whether a student-athlete tore her ACL, but no authorization has been given. The AT should respond this way.
What is protect the athlete’s confidential medical information and not disclose it?
During a hot football practice, an athlete becomes dizzy, confused, and begins stumbling. The AT recognizes possible heat illness but allows the athlete to continue. The athlete later collapses. Name the four negligence elements shown in the case.
What are Duty, Breach, Causation, and Damages?