Sports Medicine and School Nurses: A Growing Need for Further Education and Appropriate Resources

Autor/inn/en	Knight, Cynthia S.; Badros, Karen K.; Madden, Cynthia A.; Drewer, Nancy; Makuchai, Penny
Titel	Sports Medicine and School Nurses: A Growing Need for Further Education and Appropriate Resources
Quelle	In: Journal of School Health, 76 (2006) 1, S.8-11 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4391
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Prevention; Working Hours; Sports Medicine; Physical Education; Nursing Education; Injuries; Guides; School Nurses; Athletics; Continuing Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit; Sportmedizin; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Pflegepädagogik; Handbuch; Leitfaden; Leichtathletik; Weiterbildung
Abstract	Sports medicine, as a discipline, can be traced back to primitive man. The use of exercise as a prerequisite for conditioning and proper treatment of injuries was first documented in early Greek civilization with the establishment of the Olympics. Today, sports by their very nature invite injury. In 2000, 2.5 million students participated in varsity sports with 750,000 injuries recorded. These numbers do not account for sports activities outside school or leisure activities. Another area of potential injury is physical education class. These classes are large with limited supervision and encompass students of varying age and abilities. Nurses do not have an extensive knowledge of injury prevention or assessment in their basic nursing education. School nurses, as a subspecialty within nursing, are expected to keep up with the requirements of the adolescent and pediatric populations as well basic nursing skills. Due to work schedules and limited resources for continuing education, school nurses are not afforded much time or benefits to attend classes that would teach them skills needed to assess athletic-type injuries. School nurses need printed resources specific to their setting to help fill this void. Recognizing this need, "Sports Medicine Techniques for the School-Based Nurse" is a manual in process that will help fill this void. Being developed specifically for school nurses, the manual will provide information on prevention, evaluation, and management of athletic-type injuries commonly seen in the school nurse's office. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10