Asthma Patient Care. 10-contact-hour continuing education course on asthma signs and symptoms, diagnosis and assessment, pharmacologic treatments, long-term management, complications, breathing difficulty, and managing attacks. Applicable for nursing, occupational therapy, and other practitioners.

1) Define “asthma” and its types.
2) Discuss the impacts of asthma.
3) Review the pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, etiology, and contributing factors related to the development of asthma.
4) Describe the diagnostic process and assessment of asthma severity.
5) Review pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments for asthma.
6) Describe the management of acute asthma attacks/exacerbations.
7) Summarize the elements of long-term asthma management.
8) Identify the roles of respiratory, physical, and occupational therapy in the long-term management of asthma.
9) Describe complications of asthma.
10) Discuss asthma care for special populations.

Nursing
Paramedic/EMT
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy

Nursing, Paramedic/EMT, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy:
Increase your knowledge of how to plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based preventative and therapeutic care for patients at risk for asthma and patients who have asthma.

Asthma Patient Care. 10-contact-hour continuing education course on asthma signs and symptoms, diagnosis and assessment, pharmacologic treatments, long-term management, complications, breathing difficulty, and managing attacks. Applicable for nursing, occupational therapy, and other practitioners.

Nursing:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.
Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization.

Occupational Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 10567. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 10.00 CEUs, xxx aotaEdLevel xxx, Foundational Knowledge, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

Paramedic/EMT:

Course Title
Asthma Patient Care
Course ID
781
Course Price
49.00
Contact Hours
10.00
Expiration Date
2027-09-30
Course Summaries
Nursing:
Increase your knowledge of how to plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based preventative and therapeutic care for patients at risk for asthma and patients who have asthma.
Paramedic/EMT:
Increase your knowledge of how to plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based preventative and therapeutic care for patients at risk for asthma and patients who have asthma.
Occupational Therapy:
Increase your knowledge of how to plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based preventative and therapeutic care for patients at risk for asthma and patients who have asthma.
Physical Therapy:
Increase your knowledge of how to plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based preventative and therapeutic care for patients at risk for asthma and patients who have asthma.
Course Description
Asthma Patient Care. 10-contact-hour continuing education course on asthma signs and symptoms, diagnosis and assessment, pharmacologic treatments, long-term management, complications, breathing difficulty, and managing attacks. Applicable for nursing, occupational therapy, and other practitioners.
Special Accreditation
N/A
Course Professions
Nursing
Paramedic/EMT
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
State(s) requiring this course
None
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Course Statements - Nursing
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #12300.
Nurse practitioners may apply these contact hours to pharmacy continuing education and prescriptive authorization.
Course Statements - Occupational Therapy
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 10567. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 10.00 CEUs, xxx aotaEdLevel xxx, Foundational Knowledge, OT Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Course Statements - Paramedic/EMT
Wild Iris Medical Education is an approved provider for paramedic and EMT continuing education in California by the Coastal Valleys EMS Agency: CE Provider #49-0057.

Physical Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is a Continuing Competency Approval Agency recognized by the Physical Therapy Board of California.
Approval of physical therapy continuing education credit varies by state. Confirm approval with your state's licensing agency before you take the course for CE credit. See Physical Therapy CE Approval for more information.

Clinical Application
Emergency Nursing
Pharmacy
Respiratory-Pulmonary Nursing
Airway Management and Ventilation
Medical
Clinical Application
Foundational Knowledge
OT Service Delivery

Judith Swan, MSN, BSN, ADN; Marcy Caplin, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE

Judith Swan has been in the healthcare field for over fifty years, beginning as a medic in the U.S. Air Force. As an RN, she has worked in mental health, emergency, orthopedics, hospice, and medical/surgical. She holds an MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Judith's experience in nursing education includes teaching psychiatric, long-term, and dementia nursing care and as director of a nursing assistant college program. She has written ancillary educational materials for nursing textbooks, curricula for nursing assistant programs, online health articles, and continuing education courses since 2012.

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