Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
Each different month one type of healthcare is promoted and represented for that month. For the month of March, the healthcare that is promoted is athletic training. Athletic training is something that not many people know the exact job description that it contains which kind of makes it difficult for many to know what exactly an athletic trainer contributes to. So being able to promote this job is a great way to share with all different communities what exactly the job consists of since many have their own thoughts about what this is. This is a great way to get the word out about what the job consists of, and this is able to promote to the community the importance of athletic trainers to help influence the surrounding areas to have an athletic trainer at every high school. Since many people either hear the word “athletic” or “trainer” they assume that an athletic trainer is someone who trains athletes. This is very common to people who see us on the sidelines or who have assumed from the name. However, they are way wrong. Throughout this month, there has been many ways to share the job of being an athletic trainer as in through Facebook, Twitter, and on the internet (which is now the most common way that all people share information). The new slogan of “ATs are healthcare” also expresses that we are part of the group of health care. As mentioned above, a lot of people do not know the full job description of what an athletic trainer does because many think of us as strength coaches or water boys. Our healthcare is very different from a doctor or a nurse or an EMT because we are on the field or court during all practices and games. We stay with a specific sports team throughout their whole season. We also are with an athlete before, during, and after any injury which is completely different than any other healthcare. This slogan is important to me because it shows that we are a part of the healthcare field. We have some of the same strengths and skills as different healthcare profession that qualify us to be a part of the healthcare field. This also is important to me because a lot of other outsiders don’t see us as healthcare workers because we do not work in a hospital or clinic. We are part of a school, however athletic trainers work in a clinic too. But many people do not know that, and by having this slogan we are able to promote who we are. This is a great way to help spread the word of athletic trainers being a part of the healthcare system.
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