BOC Prep and NATA-BOC Exam Secrets
Study Guide
Budget: Fixed budgeting - ✔️✔️expenditure and revenues are projected on a monthly
basis, thereby providing an estimate of cash flow; most appropriate for large, well-
established sports medicine clinics during economic certainty
Budget: Variable Budget - ✔️✔️requires adjustment of monthly expenditures so that
they do not exceed revenues, rarely used by schools based programs (very difficult to
estimate cost in advance)
Budgeting: Lump sum budgeting - ✔️✔️allocates a fixed mount of money for an entire
program without specifying how the money will be spent; gives freedom to spend where
it is needed most
Budgeting: Line item budgeting - ✔️✔️allocates a fixed amount of money for each sub
function of a program (difficult to move the money to another sub section of the
program)
Budgeting: Performance budgeting - ✔️✔️allocates funds for discrete activities;not
commonly used due to expense and difficulty of analyzing specific activities cost
Licensure - ✔️✔️limits AT to those who have met minimal requirements established by
state board.
State certification - ✔️✔️restricts the performance of AT functions to only those
certified
Registration - ✔️✔️paid fee for being placed on an existing list of practitioners
exemption - ✔️✔️state realizes that AT perform functions similar to those of other
licensed professional
Vision statement - ✔️✔️a concise statement that describes the ideal statement to
which an organization aspires
mission statement - ✔️✔️a written expression of an organizations philosophy, purpose,
and characteristics
,WOTS UP analysis - ✔️✔️a data collection and appraised technique designed to
determine an organization's ( weakness, opportunities, threats, and strengths underlying
planning)
Opperational planning - ✔️✔️defines organizational activités in the short term, usually
no longer than 2 years
policies - ✔️✔️express an organization intended behavior relative to a specific program
subduction
processes - ✔️✔️a collection of steps designed to direct the most important task of an
organization
procedure - ✔️✔️provides specific directions for members of an organization to follow
practice - ✔️✔️the action that takes place in response to administrative problems (i.e.
procedures that state that machines should be calibrated once a year)
PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Techniques) - ✔️✔️a method of graphically
depicting the time line for and interrelationship of different stages of a program.
Gannt Chart - ✔️✔️a graphic planning and controlled technique that maps discrete
tasks on a calendar
OSHA - ✔️✔️Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Budget: spending-ceiling model - ✔️✔️requireds justification only for those expenses
that exceed those of the previous budget cycle (aka incremental model) often rests in
falling behind due to prices of supplies rising faster than inflation
Budget: Spending-reduction model - ✔️✔️financial crisis model: requires reallocation of
institutional funds, resulting in reduced spending levels of some programs. should
identify areas that could be cut without serious impact.
When did was the NATA formed? - ✔️✔️1950
What are the 5 steps in Evidence Based Practice? - ✔️✔️1. develop a clinical question
2. Search the literature
3. Appraise the evidence
4. apply the evidence
5. assess the outcome
What is a PICO question? - ✔️✔️Patient Intervention Comparison Outcome
,What are the 5 BOC Domains? - ✔️✔️1. Injury prevention
2. Examination, assessment and diagnosis
3. immediate and emergency care
4. therapeutic interventions
5. health care administration
What are the personal qualities of an Athletic Trainer? - ✔️✔️Stamina and ability to
adapt, empathy, sense of humor, communications, intellectual curiosity, ethical practice,
professional membership.
BOC Domain: 1. Injury and illness prevention and wellness promotion: -
✔️✔️promoting health lifestyles behaviors with effective educational and
communication to enhance wellness and minimize the risk of injury.
BOC Domain: 2. Examination, assessment and diagnosis - ✔️✔️implementing system,
evidence- based examinations and assessments to formulate valid clinical diagnosis
and determine patients plan of care.
BOC Domain: 3. Immediate and emergency care - ✔️✔️integrity best practice in
immediate and emergency care for optimal outcomes.
BOC Domain: 4. Therapeutic Interventions - ✔️✔️rehab an reconditioning injuries,
illness, and general medical conditions with the goal of achieving optimal activity level
based on core concepts using the applications of therapeutic exercise, modality
devices, and manual techniques.
BOC Domain: 5. Healthcare administration and professional responsibility -
✔️✔️integrating best practice in policy construction and implementation,
documentation, basic business practice to promote optimal patient care and employee
well-being.
Budget: Zero-based budgeting - ✔️✔️requires justification for every budget line item
without reference to previous spending patterns; requires documentation of actual
program needs and development of priority ( rank each item)
expendable supplies - ✔️✔️can not be reused ( tape, bandages, hydrogen peroxide)
non-expendable supplies - ✔️✔️can be reused ( comparison wraps, scissors,
neoprene sleeves)
non-consumable capital equipment - ✔️✔️usually not removed from ATR (ice machine,
tx table , modalities)
, consumable capital equipment - ✔️✔️crutches, coolers, and kits
6 steps of purchasing - ✔️✔️1. Request for quotation (bidding for prices)
2. Negotiation
3. Requisition: requesting for authorization to purchase the goods/ services.
4. Purchase Orders
5. Receiving
6. Accounts Payable
Strategies for managing risk: Avoidance - ✔️✔️avoid risky activity (especially when
negative consequences of activity have high cost)
Strategies for managing risk: Transference - ✔️✔️activities associated with high
financial risk but low frequency of activity ( catastrophic sports injury) or lower financial
risk but high frequency (features, joints, injuries requiring surgery)
Strategies for managing risk: Retention - ✔️✔️activities with an acceptable level of risk
that are viewed as part of the cost of doing business
Strategies for managing risk: Reduction - ✔️✔️careful development, implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation of policies and procedures and reduce risks.
clinical supervision - ✔️✔️the process of direct observation of an employees work, with
emphasis on measurements of specific behaviors, and the subsequent development of
plans to remediate deficiencies in performance
developmental supervision - ✔️✔️emphasis collaboration between supervisors and
supervises to help them solve problems and develop professionally
inspection production supervision - ✔️✔️emphasis the use of formal authority and
managerial prerogatives to improve employee efficiency and efficacy. ( focus on
achieving goals and attainment of program mission)
size of the facility should be minimum of 300 sq ft. Equation of the size of the facility -
✔️✔️( studnets at peak/ 20 per table per day)x 100 ft= total square footage
ergonomics - ✔️✔️scientific study of human work
HIPAA ( Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) - ✔️✔️Helps employees
transfer their health insurance when they switch employers, ensures that their health
info will remain private and give people more access to their own healthcare
administration
Study Guide
Budget: Fixed budgeting - ✔️✔️expenditure and revenues are projected on a monthly
basis, thereby providing an estimate of cash flow; most appropriate for large, well-
established sports medicine clinics during economic certainty
Budget: Variable Budget - ✔️✔️requires adjustment of monthly expenditures so that
they do not exceed revenues, rarely used by schools based programs (very difficult to
estimate cost in advance)
Budgeting: Lump sum budgeting - ✔️✔️allocates a fixed mount of money for an entire
program without specifying how the money will be spent; gives freedom to spend where
it is needed most
Budgeting: Line item budgeting - ✔️✔️allocates a fixed amount of money for each sub
function of a program (difficult to move the money to another sub section of the
program)
Budgeting: Performance budgeting - ✔️✔️allocates funds for discrete activities;not
commonly used due to expense and difficulty of analyzing specific activities cost
Licensure - ✔️✔️limits AT to those who have met minimal requirements established by
state board.
State certification - ✔️✔️restricts the performance of AT functions to only those
certified
Registration - ✔️✔️paid fee for being placed on an existing list of practitioners
exemption - ✔️✔️state realizes that AT perform functions similar to those of other
licensed professional
Vision statement - ✔️✔️a concise statement that describes the ideal statement to
which an organization aspires
mission statement - ✔️✔️a written expression of an organizations philosophy, purpose,
and characteristics
,WOTS UP analysis - ✔️✔️a data collection and appraised technique designed to
determine an organization's ( weakness, opportunities, threats, and strengths underlying
planning)
Opperational planning - ✔️✔️defines organizational activités in the short term, usually
no longer than 2 years
policies - ✔️✔️express an organization intended behavior relative to a specific program
subduction
processes - ✔️✔️a collection of steps designed to direct the most important task of an
organization
procedure - ✔️✔️provides specific directions for members of an organization to follow
practice - ✔️✔️the action that takes place in response to administrative problems (i.e.
procedures that state that machines should be calibrated once a year)
PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Techniques) - ✔️✔️a method of graphically
depicting the time line for and interrelationship of different stages of a program.
Gannt Chart - ✔️✔️a graphic planning and controlled technique that maps discrete
tasks on a calendar
OSHA - ✔️✔️Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Budget: spending-ceiling model - ✔️✔️requireds justification only for those expenses
that exceed those of the previous budget cycle (aka incremental model) often rests in
falling behind due to prices of supplies rising faster than inflation
Budget: Spending-reduction model - ✔️✔️financial crisis model: requires reallocation of
institutional funds, resulting in reduced spending levels of some programs. should
identify areas that could be cut without serious impact.
When did was the NATA formed? - ✔️✔️1950
What are the 5 steps in Evidence Based Practice? - ✔️✔️1. develop a clinical question
2. Search the literature
3. Appraise the evidence
4. apply the evidence
5. assess the outcome
What is a PICO question? - ✔️✔️Patient Intervention Comparison Outcome
,What are the 5 BOC Domains? - ✔️✔️1. Injury prevention
2. Examination, assessment and diagnosis
3. immediate and emergency care
4. therapeutic interventions
5. health care administration
What are the personal qualities of an Athletic Trainer? - ✔️✔️Stamina and ability to
adapt, empathy, sense of humor, communications, intellectual curiosity, ethical practice,
professional membership.
BOC Domain: 1. Injury and illness prevention and wellness promotion: -
✔️✔️promoting health lifestyles behaviors with effective educational and
communication to enhance wellness and minimize the risk of injury.
BOC Domain: 2. Examination, assessment and diagnosis - ✔️✔️implementing system,
evidence- based examinations and assessments to formulate valid clinical diagnosis
and determine patients plan of care.
BOC Domain: 3. Immediate and emergency care - ✔️✔️integrity best practice in
immediate and emergency care for optimal outcomes.
BOC Domain: 4. Therapeutic Interventions - ✔️✔️rehab an reconditioning injuries,
illness, and general medical conditions with the goal of achieving optimal activity level
based on core concepts using the applications of therapeutic exercise, modality
devices, and manual techniques.
BOC Domain: 5. Healthcare administration and professional responsibility -
✔️✔️integrating best practice in policy construction and implementation,
documentation, basic business practice to promote optimal patient care and employee
well-being.
Budget: Zero-based budgeting - ✔️✔️requires justification for every budget line item
without reference to previous spending patterns; requires documentation of actual
program needs and development of priority ( rank each item)
expendable supplies - ✔️✔️can not be reused ( tape, bandages, hydrogen peroxide)
non-expendable supplies - ✔️✔️can be reused ( comparison wraps, scissors,
neoprene sleeves)
non-consumable capital equipment - ✔️✔️usually not removed from ATR (ice machine,
tx table , modalities)
, consumable capital equipment - ✔️✔️crutches, coolers, and kits
6 steps of purchasing - ✔️✔️1. Request for quotation (bidding for prices)
2. Negotiation
3. Requisition: requesting for authorization to purchase the goods/ services.
4. Purchase Orders
5. Receiving
6. Accounts Payable
Strategies for managing risk: Avoidance - ✔️✔️avoid risky activity (especially when
negative consequences of activity have high cost)
Strategies for managing risk: Transference - ✔️✔️activities associated with high
financial risk but low frequency of activity ( catastrophic sports injury) or lower financial
risk but high frequency (features, joints, injuries requiring surgery)
Strategies for managing risk: Retention - ✔️✔️activities with an acceptable level of risk
that are viewed as part of the cost of doing business
Strategies for managing risk: Reduction - ✔️✔️careful development, implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation of policies and procedures and reduce risks.
clinical supervision - ✔️✔️the process of direct observation of an employees work, with
emphasis on measurements of specific behaviors, and the subsequent development of
plans to remediate deficiencies in performance
developmental supervision - ✔️✔️emphasis collaboration between supervisors and
supervises to help them solve problems and develop professionally
inspection production supervision - ✔️✔️emphasis the use of formal authority and
managerial prerogatives to improve employee efficiency and efficacy. ( focus on
achieving goals and attainment of program mission)
size of the facility should be minimum of 300 sq ft. Equation of the size of the facility -
✔️✔️( studnets at peak/ 20 per table per day)x 100 ft= total square footage
ergonomics - ✔️✔️scientific study of human work
HIPAA ( Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) - ✔️✔️Helps employees
transfer their health insurance when they switch employers, ensures that their health
info will remain private and give people more access to their own healthcare
administration
