In high school, I was a sports medicine student trainer for two years and had a class that talked about sports injuries and prevention. We, as students, learned how to prep players to go on the field by taping their ankles and in my case, stretching exercises that are specific to soft ball pitchers. In the spring of every school year, student trainers go to the Greater Houston Athletic Trainer Society workshop to learn more information, such as foam rolling, kinesiotaping, and sports …show more content…
Being about to be held accountable for your actions and decisions will lead to a constant improvement in the quality of patient care. When volunteering in the hospitals, meetings for the professionals were held weekly in order to discuss problems that have arisen during the week and providing a plan to be able to fix the problem in the following week. Having a weekly meeting on what goes on in a workplace is the key to being able to smooth out situations between different professionals working in the same area to provide patients with the quality of care. For example, every morning physical therapy assistants go down to the patients’ room to take them to the physical therapy gym but the nurses did not time their duties accurately which led to the decrease in quality time physical therapists and assistants had with their patients. But due to the weekly meeting, nurses have been informed about what is needed to be done by eight in the