Integrating Clinical Documentation Throughout Professional Education: Strategies for Curriculum Mapping and Instructional Delivery
Includes a Live Web Event on 10/17/2024 at 11:40 AM (CDT)
Abstract:
Patient care documentation is an essential component of athletic training clinical practice and a specific task listed within the BOC Practice Analysis. Additionally, documentation of patient care is specifically stated within the current CAATE standards. Thus, educators in professional education programs need to ensure they’re preparing students on how to effectively document patient care. Recent unpublished research examined how athletic trainers teach and learn clinical documentation from the perspectives of professional program educators, recent athletic training program graduates and their supervisors. Findings revealed several strategies used by educators, in addition to challenges faced while trying to engage students in clinical documentation. Simultaneous to the analysis of the study findings, an educator also identified weaknesses in the instruction of clinical documentation within their professional athletic training program. This prompted the educator to lead their program faculty through a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current delivery of clinical documentation within their professional athletic training program. As a result of this process, the faculty mapped documentation throughout the curriculum and established new instructional strategies for improving athletic training students’ engagement and competence with documentation of patient care. This breakout session will share the key findings of the research study as well as a case study of one program’s curriculum mapping of documentation and provide instructional strategies for teaching clinical documentation. During the breakout session, participants will be guided through the process of integrating documentation throughout their own professional program’s curriculum and will leave with tools they can use within their program. It will also describe curriculum design strategies for integrating clinical documentation throughout professional athletic training programs.
Learning Objectives:
- Compare specific instructional strategies for teaching clinical documentation during didactic and clinical education.
- Conduct a SWOT analysis of the delivery of clinical documentation within an athletic training program.
- Apply the concepts of continuous quality improvement to the instruction of clinical documentation within professional athletic training programs.
Level:
Advanced
Domain(s):
Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility
CEUs:
0.25 Category A
Track: Pedagogy
Format: Breakout Session
In order to earn your CEUs, you must watch the session video in its entirety and complete the assessment.
Sara Nottingham, EdD, LAT, ATC
Dr. Sara Nottingham is a Professor and the Director of the Athletic Training Program at the University of New Mexico. She completed her undergraduate degree at Chapman University, Master’s Degree at the University of Oregon, and her Doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. Nottingham has published over 50 research studies on clinical education, faculty development, mentoring, and documentation practices in athletic training using qualitative and mixed methods designs. She is currently a member of the NATA Foundation Research Committee and has served as Chair of the NATA Education Advancement Committee, Co-Chair of the NATA Foundation Faculty Mentor program, and member of the NATA Executive Council for Education.