SISSSPT001 — Implement sport injury prevention and management strategies
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What an assessment for SISSSPT001 must cover
44 assessable components: 5 elements (19 performance criteria), 7 performance evidence and 13 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 5 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Maintain knowledge of sport injury prevention and management.
- 1.1Source and interpret information related to preventing sport-specific injuries and illnesses, and managing injuries, illnesses and medical conditions.
- 1.2Consult with healthcare professionals and support staff on sport injury prevention and injury, illness and medical condition management strategies.
- 1.3Apply sport-specific injury prevention and injury, illness and medical condition management strategies within scope of own job role.
2 Provide sport injury prevention and management information to participants.
- 2.1Consult with sport-specific participants to identify sport injury prevention and management information needs.
- 2.2Present sport injury prevention and management information to participants.
- 2.3Check and clarify participant understanding of sport injury prevention and management information.
- 2.4Encourage participants to access support staff and healthcare professionals for sport injury prevention and management advice outside scope of own job role.
3 Implement sport-specific injury prevention strategies.
- 3.1Assess participants to determine sport-specific injury risks and identify sport-specific injury prevention strategies.
- 3.2Implement sport-specific injury prevention strategies to address sport-specific injury risks.
- 3.3Assist participants to implement sport-specific injury prevention strategies.
- 3.4Monitor and adjust sport-specific injury prevention strategies to support safe participation.
4 Implement injury, illness and medical condition management strategies.
- 4.1Assess participants to identify injury, illness and medical condition management risks and select injury, illness and medical condition management strategies.
- 4.2Implement injury, illness and medical condition management strategies to address injury, illness and medical condition risks.
- 4.3Assist participants to implement injury, illness and medical condition management strategies.
- 4.4Monitor and adjust injury, illness and medical condition management strategies to support safe participation.
5 Reflect on sport-specific injury prevention management practice.
- 5.1Seek feedback from others to identify areas to improve own sport-specific injury prevention and management practice.
- 5.2Reflect on own sport-specific injury prevention and management practice to identify areas for improvement.
- 5.3Analyse findings and incorporate learnings in future sport-specific injury prevention and management practice.
- 5.4Seek opportunities to address identified professional development needs.
Performance evidence
- warm-up
- cool-down
- applying taping to: the thumb, the ankle, the finger, the elbow
- applying taping to two of the following: the full shoulder, the knee, the Achilles tendon
- assessing one injured participant and one ill participant using: DRSABCD (Danger, Response, Send for help, Airway, Breathing, CPR, Defibrillator) principles, STOP (Stop, Talk, Observe, Prevent) principles, TOTAPS (Talk, Observe, Touch, Active movement, Passive movement, Skills test) principles
- managing one participant with a sport-specific injury or illness
- managing one participant with a medical condition
Knowledge evidence
- organisational policies and procedures applicable to implementing sport injury prevention and management strategies
- roles and responsibilities of sports trainers, participants, coaches, support staff and healthcare professionals applicable to implementing sport injury prevention and management strategies
- limitations of role in relation to advising on injuries, illnesses, medical conditions, medications, injury prevention and management, nutrition and hydration
- types, causes, impacts on participation, symptoms and management of typical sport injuries and illnesses
- types, impacts on participation and management of medical conditions: asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, cardiovascular conditions, infections
- sources and types of data on sport injuries and illnesses: incidence, severity, prevalence, cause, types of injuries
- major muscle actions and joint mechanics relevant to movement in sport
- types of sport injury risks: environmental conditions, equipment, other participants, participant mismatch, poor officiating, unsafe participant behaviours, training regime, previous injuries, fitness levels
- purpose and application of assessment strategies: DRSABCD principles, STOP principles, TOTAPS principles
- purpose and application of sport injury prevention strategies: screening, training and physical conditioning: strengthening exercises, stretching exercises, protective equipment, basic hydration and nutrition, taping, warm-up, cool-down
- purpose and application of injury, illness and medical management strategies: RICER (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation, Referral), NO HARM (Heat, Alcohol, Running, Massage), first aid, universal precautions, basic hydration and nutrition, taping, warm-up, cool-down, transport
- taping techniques: purpose of taping, contraindications and precautions for taping, pre-taping and post-taping requirements, types, qualities and functions of taping products including tapes, adherents, removers and barriers, types, functions and safe use of taping equipment, techniques for taping ankles, thumbs, fingers, elbows, full shoulder, knees and Achilles tendon, ergonomic taping practices
- sport injury prevention and management terminology
Foundation skills
- Writing skills: complete sport injury prevention and management records in the required detail and format including incident reports, participant screening records and participant profiles.
- Oral communication skills: ask open and closed questions and actively listen to determine and meet the needs of participants; interact with participants, support staff and healthcare professionals in a polite and positive manner.
- Numeracy skills: interpret and analyse sport-specific injury prevention and management statistical data; estimate risk; record sport-specific injury prevention and management data.
- Teamwork skills: work with participants, support staff and healthcare professionals.
- Technology skills: access the internet to source sport injury prevention and management information.
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Questions about assessing SISSSPT001
What does an assessment tool for SISSSPT001 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for SISSSPT001 needs to address all 44 unit components: 5 elements with 19 performance criteria, 7 performance evidence requirements, 13 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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