Texas: Patient Questions
Do you provide medications for patients? Have you had any patients have an asthma exacerbation with being seen in the bus?
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Do you provide medications for patients? Have you had any patients have an asthma exacerbation with being seen in the bus?
What can be done for effective ventilation in the classes?
As a certified school nurse in NJ, we too utilize an AAP/ATP similiar to what was just shown.... it is extremely frustrating when PCP's do not fill them out on behalf of their asthma patients, but when they do and are submitted to our school (as per our district and health office protocols) they never have PEAK Flows recorded. I am at a loss as to why these forms are being filled out by their PCP's, but are leaving off the most important element that can be so easily utilized by a School Nurse during a student's asthma attack, guiding our assessment in a much better light in ord
We are a new forming Company. Can we become Asthma Educators?
I am interested to know to what capacity you are using your CHW's during COVID-19?
what is the source of the CO DPH funding to support to home visits and interventions in the Children's Hospital program? Is the CO Medicaid program supporting home assessments and interventions?
Are school facility directors involved in these Denver-based efforts to reduce asthma triggers through operations & maintenance activities such as cleaning products, IAQ monitor installation, filter changeouts, etc?
This is very useful info for helping families control HOME and SCHOOL factors that affect asthma. Any strategy/suggestions for how to help families/communities when the environmental threats are coming from outside the home--environmental injustice issues such as close-by chemical treatment plants (e.g., sewage, water), or high voltage power lines and the radiation and micro-pollutants that accumulate around such lines, off-gassing from dumps, etc?
Now that Asthma guidelines recommend ICS use to treat asthma flare-ups, are we to advise parents to deliver both albuterol AND ICS to school for use to treat flare up at school?
Hello,
In light of COVID-19 and young children with asthma in school, many of us will be deliveing albuterol and other inhaled medications to students via MDI and spacer, however there are students with special needs and those of young age who are not able to effectively take inhaled medications by MDI / spacer. What methods of delivering nebulizer treatments safely to these students have been explored or discussed?
Thank you,
Dan
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