New Year Begins With New Courses
As your source of lifelong learning, NATA EducATe provides users with an extensive educational library, a customizable experience, the ability to interact with peers and more.
New courses are constantly being added to the platform to ensure you have the knowledge needed to stay up to date in your practice – as well as earn CEUs.
Enhanced access to the entire NATA EducATe On-Demand Course Catalog is also now available to NATA members so take advantage of these courses.
Start off the new year with these new courses released in January. Visit NATA EducATe for more information on these and other courses available at your fingertips.
The Athletic Trainer's Role in Cybersecurity
By Jeremy Howard, EdD, LAT, ATC
The purpose of this course is to identify various cybersecurity threats. It also aims to describe best practices in cybersecurity that will improve patient information protection. Participants will learn to select appropriate organizational policies in cybersecurity to improve the protection of patient data.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Suicide Recognition, Referral and Critical Incident Debriefing
By Zachary Winkelmann, PhD, LAT, ATC, and Elizabeth Neil, PhD, LAT, ATC
By taking this course, participants will learn to recognize the signs, symptoms and risk factors for suicidal ideation with emphasis placed on concerns with women and female patients. Its objective is to evaluate methods to screen for suicidality. It also aims to describe the immediate support procedures for a patient in crisis and establish evidence-based referral pathways for continued support. It will compare resources available for athletic trainers following a critical incident, and examine critical incident stress management and debriefing.
Event Emergency Preparedness for Exertional Heat Stroke: Lessons from the Olympic and Paralympic Games
By Yuri Hosokawa, PhD, ATC, FACSM
This course aims to develop policy and procedures for exertional heat stroke pre-hospital management designed for mass participation events. It will help participants design heat deck at mass participation events. Attendees will get to understand special considerations required to set up heat deck in para-athlete sports with high risk of exertional heat stroke. It will also design and lead pre-event training sessions on exertional heat stroke pre-hospital management for medical volunteers.
Athletic Trainers in Surgery: Breaking Down Walls, Building Pathways
By Michelle Holt, MA, LAT, ATC, and Brandy Jones-Neelam, MS, LAT, ATC
This course seeks to identify the resources that already exist to support an athletic trainer’s quest to create an advanced opportunity in the operating room. It aims to analyze the practice gap of AT integration into surgery and potential barriers that ATs may need to overcome. It will evaluate practice act variabilities, personnel influences and advocacy strategies to consider in the process of earning privileges to assist orthopedic surgeons.
