OCG - Sports Medicine 1

South Carolina Standards:  (List the standards students are expected to master in this course)

http://ed.sc.gov/agency/programs-services/148/HealthScience.cfm (Links to an external site.)

Foundation Standard 1: Academic Foundation Healthcare professionals will know the academic subject matter required for proficiency within their area. They will use this knowledge as needed in their role. The following accountability criteria are considered essential for students in a health science program of study.

1. Define and discuss sports medicine and it’s development throughout history.
2. Identify the major bones and muscle groups of the body.
3. Describe the psychological effects of injury and recovery.
4. Recognize body planes, directional terms, quadrants, and cavities.
5. Apply mathematical computations related to sports medicine and healthcare procedures.
6. Analyze diagrams, charts, graphs, and tables related to healthcare.

Foundation Standard 2: Communications Healthcare professionals will know the various methods of giving and obtaining information. They will communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

1. Demonstrate appropriate oral and written communication with: o coaches, o team physicians, o parents, o athletes, o school and athletic administrators, and o other healthcare professionals.
2. Apply speaking and active listening skills.
3. Use appropriate oral and written medical terminology within the scope of practice in order to interpret, transcribe, and communicate information, data, and observations.
4. Use roots, prefixes, and suffixes to communicate information.
5. Use medical abbreviations to communicate information.

Foundation Standard 3: Systems Healthcare professionals will understand how their role fits into their department, their organization and the overall healthcare environment. They will identify how key systems affect services they perform and quality of care.

1. Discuss the administrative and management role of the sports medicine team members. Understand an organizational chart.
2. Describe a sports medicine facility setup, to include: o floor plan design, o facility equipment and furnishings, and o functionality.
3. Describe the budgeting and purchasing process for the facility.
4. Describe common methods of payment for healthcare.

Foundation Standard 4: Employability Skills Healthcare professionals will understand how employability skills enhance their employment opportunities and job satisfaction. They will demonstrate key employability skills and will maintain and upgrade skills, as needed.

1.Explore potential sports medicine career paths. (For example, but not limited to Athletic Training, Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy Assistant, Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy Assistant, Radiology, Physician Assistant, Orthopedics and Exercise Science pathways).

2. Explain the education process, levels of education, credentialing requirements, employment opportunities, workplace environments, professional development, and career growth potential for a sports medicine career path.
3. Interact appropriately and respectfully with diverse ethnic, age, cultural, religious, and economic groups in various employment and social settings.

4.Classify personal traits and attitudes desirable in a member of the sports medicine team.

5 .Summarize basic professional standards as they apply to hygiene, dress, language, confidentiality, and behavior.

6. Develop a job description of a sports medicine team member.
7. Develop a performance evaluation of a sports medicine team member.
8. Demonstrate the process of obtaining employment

Foundation Standard 5: Legal Responsibilities Healthcare professionals will understand the legal responsibilities, limitations, and implications of their actions within the healthcare delivery setting. They will perform their duties according to regulations, policies, laws, and legislated rights of clients.

1. Analyze legal responsibilities.
2. Define malpractice, liability, negligence, assumption of risk, and informed consent.
3. Identify behaviors and/or practices that could result in malpractice, liability, and/or negligence.
4. Identify duties of sports medicine providers according to regulations, policies, laws, and legislated rights of patients.
5. Contrast scope of practice among regulated healthcare professionals, students, and other individuals.
6. Recognize and explain the standards for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality.
7. Explain the laws governing harassment, labor, and employment.

Foundation Standard 6: Ethics Healthcare professionals will understand accepted ethical practices with respect to cultural, social, and ethnic differences within the healthcare environment. They will perform quality healthcare delivery.

1. Practice responsibly within the ethical framework of the sports medicine profession.
2. Identify code of ethics for various sports medicine professionals.
3. Differentiate between ethical and legal issues impacting sports medicine.
4. Compare personal and professional ethics.
5. Recognize and analyze ethical issues and their implications related to sports medicine.
6. Identify religious, cultural, economic, and ethnic values as they impact healthcare and demonstrate respectful and empathetic interactions within a diverse population.

Foundation Standard 7: Safety Practices Healthcare professionals will understand the existing and potential hazards to clients, coworkers, and self. They will prevent injury or illness through safe work practices and follow health and safety policies and procedures. 1. Explain the importance of appropriate equipment maintenance, such as: o player equipment and o sports medicine facility modalities.

2. Identify environmental risk factors associated with specific activities of the physically active .Demonstrate the ability to determine unsafe environmental conditions using a sling psychrometer/wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) device, lightning detector, heat index, flash-to-bang method, and wind chill factor.
3. Practice infection control procedures. -Apply appropriate use of standard precautions for infectious diseases as established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
4. Explain personal safety practices to include hygiene, sanitation, body mechanics, and ergonomics.
5. Maintain a safe environment for participants in athletic facilities/venues and comply with safety signs, symbols and labels.
6. Construct an emergency crisis plan for the sports medicine setting(s).
7. Practice fire safety related to a healthcare setting.

Foundation Standard 8: Teamwork Healthcare professionals will understand the roles and responsibilities of individual members as part of the healthcare team, including their ability to promote the delivery of quality healthcare. They will interact effectively and sensitively with all members of the healthcare team.

1. Define and analyze the members and roles of the sports medicine team.
2. Examine how sports medicine team members interact with each other.
3. Analyze attributes and attitudes of an effective leader.
4. Apply effective techniques for managing team conflicts.

Foundation Standard 9: Health Maintenance Practices Healthcare professionals will understand the fundamentals of wellness and the prevention of disease processes. They will practice preventive health behaviors among the clients.

1. Describe the Food Guide Pyramid and/or basic nutrients.
2. Discuss nutritional concerns of the athlete, such as: o appropriate hydration, o inappropriate and appropriate diets, o nutritional supplements, o pre- and post-game meals, and o weight control.
3. Describe eating disorders and their management.
4. Apply behaviors that promote health and wellness.
5. Describe significance of health screenings and examinations (preparticipation physical exams).
6. Apply practices that promote prevention of disease and injury.
7. Discuss complementary and alternative health practices as they relate to wellness and disease and injury prevention and rehab. (acupuncture, massage, chiropractic care etc.)

Foundation Standard 10: Technical Skills Healthcare professionals will apply technical skills required for all career specialties. They will demonstrate skills and knowledge as appropriate.

1. Demonstrate basic first aid skills.
2. Demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) skills.
3. Observe, measure, record and evaluate vital signs, including normal ranges, for temperature and skin color, pulse and respiration, and blood pressure.
4. Perform measurement of height and weight.
5. Demonstrate use of the Snellen Eye Chart.
6. Perform taping and wrapping skills, such as those for foot, ankle, hand, wrist, fingers, and toes.
7. Explain and perform appropriate fitting of protective and/or supportive sports equipment.

Foundation Standard 11: Information Technology Applications Healthcare professionals will use information technology applications required within all career specialties. They will demonstrate use as appropriate to healthcare applications.

1. Understand the use of technology in injury evaluation and tracking
2. Demonstrate use of basic computer operation procedures and file organization.
3. Demonstrate use of appropriate email, social and educational media.

Required Instructional Materials and Resources: (List required materials including SDOC provided textbooks, including any fees that apply, etc.)

TEXT:  Introduction to Sports Medicine and Athletic Training. Thompson Delmar, 2004. By France.

TEXT: Sports Medicine Essentials. Thomson Delmar, 2001. By Jim Clover.

TEXT: Diversified Health Occupations (DHO), 2009. Lois Simmers.

Health Science Instructional Supplement, National Consortium for Health Science Education (NCHSE). 2010.

Amercan Heart Association BLC & Heartsaver books and CDs.

Internet

Computer CD: Basic Medical Language, 2010. By Mryna & Danielle Lafleur.

Website: HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America)

FEES: $20.00

Optional Materials and Resources:

• 3 ring notebook, paper, pen, pencil