Overview of School Nurse Resources to Assist With Sports & Orthopedic

Injuries Ranie Whatley, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, CEN Orthopedics Department Objective

. Identify the reliable healthcare resources to assist the school nurses with sports and orthopedic injuries in the young athlete

What Are Reliable Resources?

Tips For Locating Reliable Online Information . Don’t search entire internet. Start with a library or trusted site for your search. . Evaluate .com sites very carefully! These tend to be commercial and can be biased or have conflicts of interest. . Make sure information is current (generally less than 3 years old) Reliable Online Resources

. Examine author’s credentials to ensure it was written by a healthcare professional with expertise on the topic . National Institute of Health recommends asking yourself 5 quick questions to decide if resource is reliable: who, what, when, where, and why?

5 Quick Questions

. Who: Who runs the website? Are they trustworthy? . What: What does it say? Are there claims made? . When: When was information posted/reviewed? Is it current (written or updated within last 3 years)? . Where: Where did information come from? Is it based on scientific research? Evidence-Based Practice? . Why: Why does the site exist? Educational?

Reliable Organizational Sites

. American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) . American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) . Cook Children’s Health Care System . National Athletic Trainer’s Association (NATA)

Reliable Organizational Sites

. Ortho Kids by the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) . Safe Communities America (Fort Worth) . Safe Kids Worldwide . STOP Sports Injuries . Youth Sports Safety Alliance

Reliable Resources

. UpToDate • Subscription Resource (app available) • Physician-authored clinical decision support resource • Evidence-Based • Current information on any and every topic • Earn CE/CME hours while you search/read • Patient education information available Reliable Resources

. Ortho Kids • Provided by the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) • Current information on ortho conditions, fractures, safety and injury prevention, health and fitness, etc. • Information for patients and parents Reliable Resources

. Cook Children's • SPORTS program • Conditions Treated • Educational Resources • Sports Injury Education • Customized Health Info Packet-Ask our librarians! Educational Resources On Site

. The SPORTS Program at Cook Children's offers educational material for parents, coaches, trainers and nurses for sport-specific injuries. . Select sport tab for sport-specific injury prevention information . Other sports injury information . Education and articles . Nutrition, fitness, and exercise

Navigating Website www.cookchildrens.org

Specialties Tab

Select a Specialty: Sports Med References

. American Academy of Pediatrics (2017, March 3). 2017 Sports Injury Prevention Tip Sheet. Retrieved from https://www.aap.org/en- us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/news-features-and-safety- tips/Pages/Sports-Injury-Prevention-Tip-Sheet.aspx . American College of Sports Medicine (2017). http://www.acsm.org . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017). Injury Prevention & Control. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/injury/ . Cook Children’s SPORTS Program (2017). Retrieved from http://www.cookchildrens.org/sports/Pages/default.aspx

References

. Johns Hopkins Medicine (2017). Finding Reliable Health Information Online. Retrieved from http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/johns_hopkins_bayview/patient_vis itor_amenities/community_health_library/finding_reliable_health_inf ormation_online.html . National Athletic Trainer Association (2017). Health Issues: Resources. Retrieved from https://www.nata.org/practice-patient- care/health-issues . National Institute of Health (2017, March 6). Finding and Evaluating Online Resources. Retrieved from https://nccih.nih.gov/health/webresources

References

. Ortho Kids (2017). http://orthokids.org . Safe Communities America Fort Worth, TX (2017). Sports Injury Task Force. Retrieved from http://www.fwscc.org/sports-injury-task- force . Safe Kids Worldwide (2017). https://www.safekids.org . STOP Sports Injuries (2017). http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org . UpToDate (2017). http://www.uptodate.com/home . Youth Sports Safety Alliance (2017). http://youthsportssafetyalliance.org