BOC Prep and NATA-BOC Exam Secrets Study
Guide |868 Questions with Answers
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.
,-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.
-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)
-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
-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
-FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Acts) - -1974, federal law requiring
student authorization to release educational records to third party and ensuring access for
student to their records ( also called Buckley Amendment)
-Documentation: Problem - Oriented medical record - -organizes information around a
patients specific comoplaint
-Documentation: Focus Charting - -medical record that registers a patient complaint date,
the health care practitioners actions, and the patient response
-Documentation: Charting by exception - -type of medical record that notes only those
patient response that vary from predefined norms (makes records keeping more efficient
and less time consuming, inappropriate for recording initial injury evaluation, has many
potential uses for recording treatment and rehab; requires strict treatment protocols)
Guide |868 Questions with Answers
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.
,-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.
-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)
-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
-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
-FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Acts) - -1974, federal law requiring
student authorization to release educational records to third party and ensuring access for
student to their records ( also called Buckley Amendment)
-Documentation: Problem - Oriented medical record - -organizes information around a
patients specific comoplaint
-Documentation: Focus Charting - -medical record that registers a patient complaint date,
the health care practitioners actions, and the patient response
-Documentation: Charting by exception - -type of medical record that notes only those
patient response that vary from predefined norms (makes records keeping more efficient
and less time consuming, inappropriate for recording initial injury evaluation, has many
potential uses for recording treatment and rehab; requires strict treatment protocols)
