Asthma Respiratory Web Resource
This 58-page PDF document is based on a presentation done by Deb Cook, RN, AE-C, at the February 21, 2024 Missouri School Health Conference. The document includes color illustrations, text, and links to related websites.
The Missouri School Asthma Manual is a large (234 page) collection of resources designed to assist school nurses and others who seek to improve school asthma services. The manual index has been constructed to make it easy to locatematerials in the context of day-to-day needs to which school nurses...
Asthma Health Office Management Respiratory School Toolkits Web Resource
The Respiratory Health Association and the Illinois Department of Public Health put together this 32-page toolkit to provide participating schools or school districts with guidelines to implement Illinois’ stock albuterol policy (Public Act 100-0726), focusing on medication storage, training guidelines/requirements, symptom recognition and emergency response protocols. It also includes...
Asthma Health Office Management Respiratory Web Resource
Full title: Barriers and Solutions to Implementing Stock Asthma Medication in SchoolsPublished by the American Lung Association Editorial StaffDecember 13, 2023 In September 2023, the American Lung Association brought together school health professionals such as nurses for a to share some of the successful strategies and tactics that worked...
The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) supports school policies that promote access to life-saving medicines to treat students and staff who experience asthma attacks or severe allergic reactions. Since 2012, most states have passed laws that allow or require schools to keep a supply of epinephrine auto-injectors...
Plain Talk about Asthma is like an asthma dictionary that explains words that doctors and nurses use when they talk about asthma. This 25 page booklet is practical and is divided into five sections: About Asthma, Take Care – Take Action, Definitions, Key Words and New Words. It was...
Air Ventilation Asthma Just in Time Learning
Considerations: Supplies: Administering Oxygen with an Oxygen Concentrator Procedure: Procedure for Checking and Cleaning Oxygen Concentrator and Tubing: Troubleshooting oxygen concentrator alarms: References: Lynn, P. (2019). Administering oxygen by nasal cannula. In Skill checklists for Taylor’s clinical nursing skills. A nursing process approach. (5th ed.). (p. 312). Pediatric Home...
Asthma School Toolkits Web Resource
Schools can develop and implement a high-quality stock inhaler policy with this Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) toolkit from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. This work was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy Schools Branch.
Schools can develop and implement a high-quality stock epinephrine policy with this Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) toolkit from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. This work was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy Schools Branch.
Asthma Web Resource
Asthma surveillance data includes collection and analyses of asthma data at both the national and the state level. National data is available on asthma morbidity, emergency department visits, hospitalizations due to asthma, and asthma mortality.
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