Learn and Teach About Asthma: The Basics

Mass General Brigham Asthma Center’s Learn and Teach About Asthma: The Basics is an introductory course for healthcare workers seeking to learn more about asthma and its treatment.  It has been designed specifically for community health workers, medical assistants, nurses’ aides, daycare workers, and others with a similar interest in helping to care for children and adults with asthma.  It does not assume any advanced medical background.  For those more comfortable learning in Spanish, all of the lectures have been recorded in Spanish.

The course consists of 6 videorecorded lectures.  All of the slides shown in the lectures are available as pdf files (in English and in Spanish).  Topics include understanding what asthma is, and what it is not; demonstration of the various inhalers and other devices used in the management of asthma; asthma attacks and the “asthma action plan” to help patients manage flares of their asthma; and our approach to the patient with allergies and asthma.  Our last presentation is a multiple-choice quiz to help you review various asthma-related topics by means of discussion of 10 clinical case scenarios.

This continuing professional development activity has been approved for 3 contact hours by the American Nurses Association Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

For more information about the course or for any asthma-related questions that you may have after watching the course, please contact Dr. Chris Fanta at asthma@mgb.org.