{"id":32509,"date":"2022-04-12T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32509"},"modified":"2022-04-12T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T21:24:01","slug":"athletic-trainer-scope-of-practice-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32509","title":{"rendered":"Athletic trainer scope of practice expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators made a number of changes to the scope of practice of licensed athletic trainers in Nebraska April 12.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24400\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24400\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"SenBHansen_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ben Hansen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ben Hansen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24400\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ben Hansen\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ben Hansen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB436, introduced by Sen. Ben Hansen of Blair, expands permitted activities under the Athletic Training Practice Act to include:<br \/>\n\u2022 injury prevention and wellness promotion;<br \/>\n\u2022 examination, assessment and medical opinion;<br \/>\n\u2022 health care administration;<br \/>\n\u2022 therapeutic modalities;<br \/>\n\u2022 therapeutic intervention or rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses; and<br \/>\n\u2022 immediate emergency care including administration of emergency drugs prescribed by a physician.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, athletic trainers cannot use joint manipulation or joint cavitation or prescribe medications but may employ \u201cdry needling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed LB436 on a 45-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators made a number of changes to the scope of practice of licensed athletic trainers in Nebraska April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-32509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-ben-hansen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32522,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32509\/revisions\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}