ASTHMA TRAINING

Asthma Training

This Asthma Education Programme has been developed jointly by the Asthma Society of Ireland and The HSE National Asthma Programme, to provide the core knowledge needed by healthcare professionals to ensure that the care asthma patients receive is in line with international best practice.

• The education programme will provide healthcare professionals with the basic knowledge to diagnose, assess, treat and monitor asthma patients, develop an asthma management plan in partnership with the patient and to assess and treat asthma exacerbations according to the severity of the episode.

The programme is comprised of six modules. Each module follows a similar format:

Learning aims and objectives:

• Supporting documentation/course material
• Video presentation of each learning module
• MCQ assessment

It is strongly recommended that as a minimum users should download and print the “Asthma in General Practice Guidelines” (common resource to all modules) and the pdf of the Powerpoint Presentation for each module. This will greatly facilitate your understanding of the course material and completion of the MCQ assessments.

All questions in the MCQ assessment must be answered correctly to allow the user to move on to the next module. There is an opportunity to review your answers before submission and there will be an opportunity to re-take the MCQ if the user does not pass on the first set of questions.

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