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Components
Selected interns will be well grounded in all activities of the Kennedy Space Center RehabWorks program by certified/licensed athletic trainers. Instructional components will include the following:- Daily patient care consisting of work related, non-work related, acute, chronic and post operative injuries,
- Weekly RehabRounds with our overseeing physician,
- Staff meetings, ergonomic meetings, worker's compensation meetings,
- Outreach projects such as posters, bulletin boards, etc,
- Weekly intern review sessions consisting of article reviews, hands on practice, practical simulations of patient care,
- Research and presentation of a corporate/industrial related topic.
This will be accomplished by these individual learning activities:
- Organization and Administration
- Record-keeping/data entry, reception, service desk management.
- Time management/personal organization
- SOAP notes
- Communication and Facility Publications
- Multimedia utilization for the dissemination of educational materials
- Planning and promotional design of newsletters, bulletin- boards and brochures
- Developing materials/presentations for workshops, lecture and/or in-services
- Athletic Training Services
- Evaluation, rehabilitation and reconditioning of patients
- Modality usage and understanding of parameters
- Application of therapeutic exercise principles
- Patient education/instruction in home exercise programs
- Post-op bandage and wound care management
- Rehabilitation Protocol Design and Exercise Prescription
- Patient specific injury maintenance programs
- Implementation of exercise programs
- Equipment use/instruction
- Observation & interaction with exercising employees
- Wellness Programs
- Principles of behavior change & healthy lifestyle maintenance
- Stress management
- Back Care/Back at Work Program
- Microbreak seminars
- RehabWorks Educational Lecture Series
- Interactive Lunch and Learns
- Outreach
- Surgery viewing
- Off-site clinic visitations
- Attend local professional conferences
- Visit other non-traditional athletic training facilities
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Editor: Erik Nason NASA Official: David A. Tipton Last Updated: September 7, 2007 |
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