This course assists clinicians in preparing for the Asthma Educator Certification (AE-C) examination offered by the National Asthma Educator Certification Board (NAECB) and is a general refresher course on asthma care.
**Please note that all programs require the participant to view the entire program prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**
Successful completion of this course requires achieving 70% or higher on the post-course test.
This course is approved for 10.5 CRCE by the AARC.
This course is approved for 10.5 CNE by the Ohio Nurses Association through 3/26/2017. (ONA #17988)
- Identify key content areas covered by the National Asthma Education Certification Board (NAECB) examination
- Identify key skills for asthma educators
- Analyze current trends in the asthma epidemic
- Identify how asthma presents and its underlying causes
- Explain current “best” practice of pharmacologic management of asthma
- Describe how asthma is diagnosed
- Discuss the role of the peak flow meter in the ongoing assessment and monitoring of asthma
- Compare and contrast obstructive and restrictive disease
- Identify how to assure definitive and reproducible pulmonary function testing results
- Compare the characteristics of different inhalation devices currently available and define patterns of acceptable inhalation technique for each.
- Identify common asthma triggers
- Compare and analyze techniques in the management of asthma triggers
- Identify psychological, social, and cultural factors that affect adherents to asthma therapy
- Discuss the expected self-management goals of asthma therapy
- Explain four essential components of asthma management that must be met in order to achieve control of asthma
- Describe mechanisms and processes to evaluate an asthma program
- Identify common barriers to effective communication
- Identify various questioning techniques
- Identify the benefits to patient education and the impact of effective patient education on health outcomes
- Identify barriers to effective learning
- Describe strategies and techniques to improve my test-taking skills