Asthma Information For Healthcare Professionals

What You Should Do

• Know and apply evidence-based standards of care.
• Refer your patients to a Certified Asthma Educator.
• Help a patient or their household family member quit smoking.
• Create an Asthma Action Plan with your patients to use with school nurses, teachers, and coaches to help manage and communicate a care plan for asthma. 
• Upload the Asthma Action plan into KIDSNET so that School Nurse Teachers can access it.
• Let parents know about community asthma resources including Hasbro Children's Hospital's: Draw-A-Breath education program and Asthma Camp.
• Consider focusing on quality improvement of asthma care as part of the National Center for Quality Assurance Patient Centered Medical Home accreditation process. Self-management goal setting and a written care plan are integral to accreditation for practices implementing asthma as an area of focus. (For more information on local providers who have done this, contact us. more
• Distribute our printed materials on: steps patients can take to decrease asthma triggers in the home, safe cleaning for people with asthma, and steps that landlords can take to improve housing conditions for tenants.