Paper instructions:
2-3 page essay including these basic features:
detailed information about the subject
a clear organizational plan
a perspective on the subject
the purpose
the audience
attached is an interview with a nurse as well as this URL
http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE34&SID=5&iPin=COF056&SingleRecord=True.
1. Why did you decide to go into the field of nursing?
2. What does being an asthma educator mean to you?
3. How did your position come about in the hospital?
4.Have you ever lost a patient? If so, how did you cope?
5.What do you think about the resources that are available for asthmatic patients?
6. Why did you choose to work at a childrens hospital vs. with the general public?
7.What do you think can be improved in educating families with asthma?
8.What are you long term goals as being a nurse/ asthma educator?
9. What are your responsibilities as an asthma educator in a children’s hospital?
10. What do you feel is the most rewarding about your job?
1) I decided to go into the field of nursing after becoming a medical assistant after high school graduation. The field of nursing has so many opportunities to utilize your degree which motivated me to complete my degree.
2) Being an asthma educator means that you want to improve the quality of life of any child or adult affected by this chronic medical condition. Asthma Educators have the passion to make a difference in the lives of asthmatics to help them manage their triggers, decrease missed school & work days, encourage patients how to have a healthy & safe lifestyle thru exercise, and teaching them how to control their asthma so asthma does not control them.
3) My current position came about in the hospital thru a discussion I had with my supervisor regarding the absence of not having a pediatric asthma program or certified asthma educator available for this patient population. I had to present my idea of what improvements could be made and obtain my certification as an asthma educator thru the national association of asthma educators.
4) Yes unfortunately, I have seen multiple patients lose their battle due to an asthma exacerbation. I cope with loss of patients by attending the post-meetings with the physician and the team who took care of the patient. At this meeting, we learn what could of possibly be done to prevent this death which helps me teach other families how to treat asthma exacerbations early and promptly to prevent this from occurring. We also discuss our feelings about what happened with this patient as a group to have a support system at work.
5) There is online resources for patients affected by asthma, the American Lung Association & Mothers of Asthmatics non-profits have great educational resources, and they have created multiple apps for patients to use on their phone or computer to help assist the patient with medication reminders & daily logs on their asthma control that three physician may opt to monitor. My concern is financial assistance for medications needed to control asthma and help the patient during asthma exacerbations. The cost of average daily controller inhaler medication is $200.00. There are many families that are uninsured or with their income, simply cannot afford this cost. There are medication assistance programs from each of the drug companies that produce these inhalers- but many families are just not aware of these programs. I wish more primary care providers and pharmacists would encourage families to apply for assistance & make them aware of educational resources. I also created an free asthma support group for any age child in Arizona and previous patients are invited to attend with their family to continue to learn more about asthma since I noticed there is not any support groups for children currently in Arizona. There are two asthma camps that I volunteer that sends children to learn more about asthma and also meet other children with asthma to learn they can do all activities with asthma in a safe environment.
6) I chose to work at a children’s hospital since I have a passion for the care of children. The children’s hospital I work at is a non-profit that has a high standard of helping the community and giving back so I am also able to open my services to the general public also! I offer free asthma education consultations to the public that are interested in learning morning regardless if they have insurance or not.
7) To help improve educated families in asthma, my dream would be every hospital would have a certified asthma educator on staff with an asthma education program to provide education, resources, and support for any child or adult who is treated for asthma exacerbation. Every primary care provider office should supply their patient with a history of asthma with an asthma action plan, provide financial resources for patient to apply for medication assistance, and schedule routine asthma checkups instead of treating asthma exacerbations alone to monitor the patent’s medication compliance and asthma control level. School nurses or aides should all receive training on asthma – how to care for these students during an exacerbation so children are safe while on campus. Pharmacists should also be required to double check the patient receiving an inhaler or spacer that they review proper inhalation technique in case the patient did not receive this education by the primary care provider or hospital & to help increase receiving the complete dose of the medication with proper inhalations.
8) My long term goals is to achieve my doctorate of nursing as a pediatric nurse practitioner.
I would like to continue providing asthma education by working in the field of Pulmonology or at an Asthma/Allergy specialist group. I have discussed with the children’s hospital on the idea of opening an outpatient asthma clinic to provide asthma education and help prevent emergency department visits & readmissions for preventative health care.
9) My responsibilities as the asthma program manager at the children’s hospital range from assisting with nursing & physician staff training regarding asthma education and asthma care protocols, provide bedside consultations with patients admitted to the hospital, assist as co-lead on the strategic initiative team for pediatric asthma for Banner Health to lead all Banner hospitals in Arizona & other states such as Colorado & Alaska that treat pediatric patients with asthma with best practice, lead meetings with nursing management, nursing director and chief medical officer to monitor and improve our asthma joint commission scores, provide the public with resources by speaking at conferences, school nurse events, and our asthma support group.
10) The most rewarding part of my job is when a patient returns back for a follow-up visit after receiving asthma education and controller medications with a big smile & telling me they can run faster when playing sports or they now can join in P.E. at school since they breathe easier! I love when parents state they feel like they now know how to control asthma better so it does not affect their child not being able to sleep well at night or affects school absence rates which affects them missing work also. I love helping children realize they play any sport and be just like the rest of kids that do not have asthma – that they are just the same ????
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