Asthma Basics for Schools: Part 2 -- Asthma Goals for School Health
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SLIDE 1: Asthma Basics for Schools: Part 2 -- Asthma Goals for School Health
Developed by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP)
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SLIDE 2: Asthma Basics for Schools: Part 2-Presentation Overview
- Asthma Goals for School Health
- Infrastructure & Supportive Policies
- Health & Mental Health Services
- Asthma Education
- Healthy School Environment
- Physical Education & Activity
- Family & Community Involvement
- Asthma Resources
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SLIDE 3: Asthma Goals for School Health
- Infrastructure & Supportive Policies
- Health & Mental Health Services
- Asthma Education
- Healthy School Environment
- Physical Education & Activity
- Family & Community Involvement
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SLIDE 4: Goal 1: Infrastructure & Supportive Policies
- Ensure adequate student health records
- Establish emergency plan for asthma episodes at school
- Ensure immediate access to medications during all school activities
- Encourage policies to allow students to carry and self-administer medications
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SLIDE 5: Goal 1: Infrastructure & Supportive Policies
Establish Emergency Plan for Asthma Episodes at School
Develop school-wide emergency plans/procedures. Include:
- Respiratory distress treatment protocols
- Procedures to access students' individualized asthma action plans
- Plan for students without an individualized plan
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SLIDE 6: Goal 1: Infrastructure & Supportive Policies
Ensure immediate access to medications at all times
- Allow students to carry and self- administer their asthma medications (per state law)
- Designated secure storage location for medications that are not being self-carried
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SLIDE 7: Goal 2: Health & Mental Health Services
- Identify students with asthma
- Monitor students' asthma
- Obtain and use a written asthma action plan for all students with asthma
- Provide full-time nursing services
- Train, supervise and delegate to health assistants and education staff, as appropriate
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SLIDE 8: Goal 2: Health & Mental Health Services
Identify Students with Asthma
- Obtain information about asthma diagnosis from school health forms
- Review student health records
- Focus particularly on students with poorly controlled asthma.
- Screening large groups of students for asthma is not recommended.
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SLIDE 9: Goal 2: Health & Mental Health Services
Monitor Students' Asthma
All school staff should:
- Watch for symptoms of very poorly controlled asthma
- Use attendance records to monitor absenteeism of students with asthma
- Use health room records to monitor:
- Medication logs
- Asthma-related sick visits to the health room
- Number of days sent home from school due to asthma
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SLIDE 10: Goal 2: Health & Mental Health Services
Obtain and use an asthma action plan for each student with asthma
An action plan includes:
- Prescribed daily and quick-relief medicines
- Treatment guidelines for handling asthma episodes
- Emergency contacts
- List of things that make the student's asthma worse
The plan should be:
- Placed in student's health record
- Shared with appropriate staff
- Updated annually and as needed
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SLIDE 11: Goal 2: Health & Mental Health Services
- Consider providing individual case management for students with poorly controlled asthma
- Use 504 plans or IEPs for students with asthma, as appropriate
- Facilitate links to child health insurance programs and providers
- Establish strong links to asthma care clinicians
- Communication between the student's asthma care clinician, parent, and school staff is vital.
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SLIDE 12: Goal 3: Asthma Education
For students with asthma, the school nurse should:
- Teach and monitor correct inhaler techniques
- Teach how students can monitor their asthma
- Teach when and how to get help
- Offer asthma education programs
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SLIDE 13: Goal 3: Asthma Education
For all students, teach them:
- about lung health
- what asthma is
- how to support classmates with asthma
- what to do if a classmate has an asthma episode
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SLIDE 14: Goal 3: Asthma Education
For parents and guardians of students with asthma:
- Provide education and resources to help their children better manage their asthma at school and home.
- Communicate any problems/changes you see at school.
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SLIDE 15: Goal 3: Asthma Education
For faculty and staff, provide annual professional development on:
- Asthma basics & emergency response
- What different staff can do to make their school asthma-friendly
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SLIDE 16: Goal 4: Healthy School Environment
Adopt and enforce tobacco-free policy that prohibits tobacco use at all times, on all school property, by all people, and for all school activities
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SLIDE 17: Goal 4: Healthy School Environment
Eliminate or reduce exposure to things that make asthma worse by using good housekeeping and maintenance practices
- Use integrated pest management techniques to control pests
- Use least toxic products available
- Keep temperature and humidity at appropriate settings
- Maintain HVAC systems
- Dry up damp and wet areas immediately
- Consider removing furred and feathered animals
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SLIDE 18: Goal 5: Physical Education & Activity
- Encourage full participation when student is well
- Allow pretreatment and/or warm-up before physical activity
- Ensure student access to quick-relief medication during activity
- Provide modified activities as needed
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SLIDE 19: Goal 6: Family & Community Involvement
- Encourage communication among school, home and health care providers
- Encourage active parent, student, and community participation in school activities
- Work with local community asthma programs
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SLIDE 20: Asthma Resources For School Health
National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Website and Materials
- www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/naepp/index.htm
- www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/lung/index.htm#asthma
- www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/lung/index.htm
CDC School Asthma Website and Materials
- www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/asthma
- www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/asthma/publications
- www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/SHI
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SLIDE 21: Questions and Answers
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