Broad aim of event:

• This 6 months distance learning course supplemented by study days
• Credit points – 30 Level 2 (diploma)
• Notional Study Time 300 hours
• Duration: 6 months
• This course is suitable for Health Care Professionals who are caring for Asthma patients.

• Critically examine the nature and incidence of asthma
• Examine pre-disposing factors for asthma
• Appraise methods of diagnosing asthma
• Assess the principal effects of asthma on a patient
• Analyse the critical issues in assessing a patient with asthma

• Nurses
• Doctors
• Physiotherapists
• Health Care Professionals working with asthma patients

• Epidemiology of asthma
• Pathophysiology
• Confirming diagnosis
• Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management
• Caring for patients with asthma, including the acute attack
• Patient education and the role of health professionals
• Monitoring asthma outcomes
• Establishing an asthma service

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