Athletic Trainer Services in the Secondary School Setting: The Athletic Training Locations and Services Project.

Context: Previous research from a sample of US secondary schools (n = 10 553) indicated that 67% of schools had access to an athletic trainer (AT; 35% full time [FT], 30% part time [PT], and 2% per diem). However, the population-based statistic in all secondary schools with athletic programs (n = approximately 20 000) is yet to be determined.

Objective: To determine the level of AT services and employment status in US secondary schools with athletics by National Athletic Trainers' Association district.

National Athletic Trainers' Association Position Statement: Facilitating Work-Life Balance in Athletic Training Practice Settings.

Objective:: To illustrate the concept of work-life balance and those factors that influence it and to provide recommendations to facilitate work-life balance in athletic training practice settings. To present the athletic trainer with information regarding work-life balance, including those factors that negatively and positively affect it within the profession.

Background:: Concerns for work-life balance have been growing within the health care sector, especially in athletic training, as it is continuously linked to professional commitment, burnout, job satisfaction, and career longevity.

Connecting older grandmothers raising grandchildren with community resources improves family resiliency, social support, and caregiver self-efficacy.

Custodial grandparenting can be especially challenging for older grandmothers facing age specific issues. Kinship navigator programs are social service delivery programs intended to inform grandparents and other relatives raising children about available resources and services, provide information specific to their individual needs, and help families navigate service systems. Our study utilizes self-report data from one kinship navigator federal demonstration project, which used a randomized control trial, to examine demographic characteristics for grandmothers under and over 55 years of age, whether grandmother caregivers (≥55 years) improve family resilience, social support, and caregiver self-efficacy, and which interventions improved outcomes for grandmothers (≥55 years).

National Athletic Trainers' Association Position Statement: Fluid Replacement for the Physically Active.

Objective:   To present evidence-based recommendations that promote optimized fluid-maintenance practices for physically active individuals.

Background:   Both a lack of adequate fluid replacement (hypohydration) and excessive intake (hyperhydration) can compromise athletic performance and increase health risks. Athletes need access to water to prevent hypohydration during physical activity but must be aware of the risks of overdrinking and hyponatremia.

Home health compare: Web site offers critical information to consumers, professionals.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has released new data about the quality of care provided by Medicare-certified home health agencies as part of an expanding initiative to continue to improve the home care services that are provided to millions of Americans.

Home Health Compare: Web site offers critical information to consumers and professionals.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has released new data about the quality of care provided by Medicare-certified home health agencies as part of an expanding initiative to continue to improve the home care services that are provided to millions of Americans.

Nursing home compare: web site offers critical information to consumers, professionals.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a Nursing Home Quality Initiative that provides nursing home consumers and healthcare professionals with publicly reported quality information about every Medicare- or Medicaid-certified nursing facility in the United States.

Managing troubled data: coastal data partnerships smooth data integration.

Understanding the ecology, condition, and changes of coastal areas requires data from many sources. Broad-scale and long-term ecological questions, such as global climate change, biodiversity, and cumulative impacts of human activities, must be addressed with databases that integrate data from several different research and monitoring programs. Various barriers, including widely differing data formats, codes, directories, systems, and metadata used by individual programs, make such integration troublesome.