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Asthma and other respiratory conditions in Children and Adolescents (Nurse)

Asthma and other respiratory conditions in Children and Adolescents (Nurse)

This comprehensive paediatric respiratory course is designed to help healthcare professionals identify and manage common respiratory conditions in children. It covers asthma diagnosis, risk factors, triggers, and effective management strategies, including the stepped approach to medication adjustment for children aged 1-5 and 6-11 years. You'll also learn how to manage acute asthma, croup, bronchiolitis, and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Each unit provides evidence-based guidance, practical tools for symptom assessment, and step-by-step treatment plans. Regularly updated with the latest best practices, this course ensures you stay current on paediatric respiratory care.

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  • FLEXIBLE TIMING

  • 100% ONLINE

  • accredited Course

  • Expert instructor

This course focuses on identifying and managing paediatric presentations of commonly seen respiratory symptoms. The first unit outlines the definition of asthma and asthma patterns including risk factors, common triggers and diagnosis. Unit two focuses on the management of asthma including assessing symptoms and triggers, discussing goals of management, choosing the initial treatment and periodically reviewing/adjusting treatment based on recent symptom control. The stepped approach to adjusting medication for children aged 1-5 years and 6-11 years, including how to manage acute asthma are discussed in detail. Information on croup and bronchiolitis conditions including clinical features, assessment, examination of severity, investigations, differential diagnoses and its management are covered in the following unit. The final unit outlines the definition and aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The diagnosis, investigations, management and possible indications for admission of this condition are discussed.

This course is evidence-based, demonstrates best practice and is regularly updated.

Relevance to Nurses:

Asthma is a common respiratory condition characterised by chronic inflammation of the airways. In 2017–18, an estimated 10% (around 460,000) of Australian children aged 0–14 had asthma as a long-term condition.
Croup is inflammation of the upper airway, larynx and trachea, usually triggered by a virus. Occurs generally between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.
Bronchiolitis is a viral lower respiratory tract infection, generally affecting children <12 months of age. It is a clinical diagnosis, based on typical history and examination findings.
Pneumonia can be defined clinically as the presence of fever, cough and tachypnoea at rest (and retractions in younger children). “Complicated pneumonia” occurs when there is a complication such as parapneumonic effusion, empyema, lung abscess or necrotising pneumonia.
Primary care providers are at the front line of asthma management and have the crucial role of early identification and management of uncontrolled asthma. A subspecialised severe asthma service offers the advantage of a structured, multidimensional approach to confirm the diagnosis, asthma severity and phenotype and manage risk factors and comorbidities. This multidimensional approach often involves a team of respiratory physicians, nurses and allied health professionals.

  1. Diagnose and manage asthma in childhood and adolescence.
  2. Diagnose and manage other common respiratory including bronchiolitis and croup.

All nurses.

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CPD Hours:

  • 5.0 hours CPD Activity
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Accreditations:

This activity has been endorsed by APNA according to approved quality standards criteria.

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Study Mode:

100% online

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Study duration:

5.0 hrs self-paced

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dr Valia Francis

Dr Francis enjoys all aspects of general practice and is especially interested in skin medicine, women's health and medicine of the elderly. Originally from Greece, Dr Francis is involved in teaching medical students as a Conjoint Lecturer in the Rural Medical School of Port Macquarie as well as teaching registrars. Dr Francis is a FRACGP, has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor in Sciences (First class Honours in Neuroscience), Diploma in Child Health, Diploma of the Royal College Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Diploma of Family Planning & Sexual Health.