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Asthma Educational Training for
Providers, Nurses & Healthcare Professionals

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Objectives:The purpose of this healthcare provider training session is to provide the state’s highly qualified healthcare providers, nurses and respiratory therapist with tools as provided by the NAEPP Expert Panel Review-3 Guidelines for managing asthma long term and for managing exacerbations around four essential components of asthma care, namely: assessment and monitoring, patient education, control of factors contributing to asthma severity, and pharmacologic treatment.

The training will provide physicians and nurses with tools to take away from the session that will assist in establishing a partnership between the clinician and the person who has asthma (and the caregiver, for children) is required for effective asthma management while emphasizing the four components of asthma care which are:
  • Component 1: Assessing and Monitoring Asthma Severity and Asthma Control
  • Component 2: Education for a Partnership in Care
  • Component 3: Control of Environmental Factors and Comorbid Conditions That Affect Asthma
  • Component 4: Medications
Locations and Dates: 
DHH Region 2: Baton Rouge- 2/13/12 (6:30 – 8:30 pm training, registration beginning at 6:00 pm)
**NEW LOCATION** Jubans Restaurant, 3739 Perkins Rd.
 
DHH Region 7: Shreveport- Monday, 3/5/12 (6:30 – 8:30 pm training, registration beginning at 6:00 pm) Bossier Community College, Building F, Room 203-6220 East Texas
 
 

 This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Louisiana State Medical Society through the joint sponsorship of the Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program and Louisiana Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Unit and the Louisiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  The Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program is accredited by the Louisiana State Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
                    
Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 
Office of Public Health Continuing Nursing Education Program is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
A maximum of 2.0 nursing contact hours is provided for this activity.
Special Accommodations: Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program and the Office of Public Health Continuing Nursing Education Programs fully comply with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof.
If any participant of the “Asthma Educational Training for Providers, Nurses & Healthcare Professionals” activity offered by Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program and the Office of Public Health Continuing Nursing Education Program is in need of accommodation, please do not hesitate to call Mark Anthony Perry, B.S., MPA at 225-342-2673 (phone) or 225-342-5839 (fax) one week before the activity in order to receive the service.

 

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