Asthma Educator

The targeted populations for this tool kit are pediatricians and family practice physicians, advance practice nurses, respiratory therapists and asthma educators.  The purpose of the tool kit is to encourage healthcare personnel to use the 2007 NIH Asthma Guidelines and best practice care and management of their asthma patients.

The Asthma Guidelines for Schools was written in response to many requests made by school nurses to the Arizona Asthma Coalition.  School nurses are overwhlemed by the number of school children with asthma and requested a comprehensive guide.  They asked that the guide have information appropriate for other health office and non-health personne, who have to deal with children with asthma when the school nurse is out of the building or otherwise unavailabe.

A colorful one-page checklist of the most common sources and types of indoor air pollution and the simple, no or low-cost strategies for reducing exposure.

We developed this resource because many of the other in-home trigger and air quality check lists may be too long, cumbersome, and seem too involved to be effective.  We included colorful pictures to make the checklist more appealing when distributing at tabling events, health fairs, etc.