Patient Care

To commemorate Pride Month throughout June, the NATA Now blog will share a variety of topics to support our members’ efforts to provide compassionate and culturally competent patient care to all. Cultural competence has been at the forefront of the...

By Lorin Cartwright, MS, ATC, CAA, and Mitchell Anderson, AT, ATC To commemorate Pride Month throughout June, the NATA Now blog will share a variety of topics to support our members’ efforts to provide compassionate and culturally competent patient...

By Kelsey Bains, MA, ATC, NATA ATs Care Commission As we discussed in the previous blog , the way in which we, our colleagues, patients, friends or family metabolize a critical incident may differ not only from incident to incident, but from day to...

In 2019, the NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainers’ Committee released the Wellness Screening Guidelines for the Secondary School Athletic Trainer resource to help assist ATs in creating screening surveys that tracked student athlete mental health...

In honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month , the NATA Now blog will highlight some of our Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders at the state, district and national levels throughout May. As president of the Hawaii Athletic Trainers’...

By Kelsey Bains, MA, ATC, NATA ATs Care Commission As athletic trainers, it’s imperative that we understand and investigate the effects of trauma among both our athletes and our colleagues. The changes in everyday life and mental health cause us to...

In honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month , the NATA Now blog will highlight some of our Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders at the state, district and national levels throughout May. When Marissa Fukunaga, EdD, ATC, discovered...

By Julie Young, PhD, ATC, and James Onate, PhD, ATC, FNATA Mental well-being, as a state where someone can manage life stresses and be able to productively participate in society, is an important aspect of adolescent health. Mental illness is an...

By Kimberly Peer, EdD, ATC, FNATA, Gretchen Schlabach, PhD, ATC, Marisa Colston, PhD, ATC, Carrie Baker, PhD, ATC, and Midge Peterson, MS, LAT, ATC, NATA Professional Responsibility in Athletic Training Workgroup Shared professional values (PVs) are...

By Kimberly Peer, EdD, ATC, FNATA, Gretchen Schlabach, PhD, ATC, Marisa Colston, PhD, ATC, Carrie Baker, PhD, ATC, and Midge Peterson, MS, LAT, ATC, NATA Professional Responsibility in Athletic Training Workgroup Given professional values (PVs) are...