Asthma Healthcare

Provider Training
What:? Asthma Educational Training for Healthcare Providers

Logistics:
Below are the dates and locations to choose from. Each training will offer 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits as
well as 2.0 hours nursing credit. Registration will begin at 6:00 pm and the training will begin promptly at 6:30
pm and conclude at 8:30 pm.

May 25, 2010-Hilton Airport, Kenner

June 1, 2010-West Monroe Convention Center, Monroe
June 8, 2010-Jubans Restaurant, Baton Rouge
June 28, 2010-Zadeck Conference Center, Shreveport
Note: Each training is limited to 50 participants. Your registration must be received no later than one week prior to the
training.

Purpose of Training:
To provide Louisiana Healthcare Providers with tools as outlined by the NAEPP National Guidelines for the Diag-
nosis and Management of Asthma
 “Diagnosis and Management of Asthma”
Registration Form
Purpose: The purpose of this healthcare provider training session is to provide the state’s highly
qualified healthcare providers and nurses with tools as provided by the NAEPP Expert Panel
Review Guidelines for managing asthma long term and for managing exacerbations around four
essential components of asthma care, namely: assessment and monitoring, patient education, control
of factors contributing to asthma severity, and pharmacologic treatment.

The training will provide physicians and nurses with tools to take away from the session that will
assist in establishing a partnership between the clinician and the person who has asthma (and the
caregiver, for children) is required for effective asthma management while emphasizing the four
components of asthma care which are:

9 Component 1: Assessing and Monitoring Asthma Severity and Asthma Control

9 Component 2: Education for a Partnership in Care
9 Component 3: Control of Environmental Factors and Comorbid Conditions That Affect
Asthma
9 Component 4: Medications

Name: ______________________________________________________
Title: _______________________________________________________
Place of Employment: __________________________________________
City/Parish __________________________/_______________________
Phone: ( ) ___________________
Email: __________________________________________________
Please choose date/location you wish to attend: Each training will offer 2.0 AMA PRA
Category 1 Credits as well as 2.0 hours nursing credit. Registration will begin at 6:00 pm
and the training will begin promptly at 6:30 pm and conclude at 8:30 pm.

… May 25, 2010-Hilton Airport, Kenner

… June 1, 2010-West Monroe Convention Center, Monroe
… June 8, 2010-Jubans Restaurant, Baton Rouge
… June 28, 2010-Zadeck Conference Center, Shreveport
Please complete this form and return to Ashley G. Politz, MSW, GSW by email at
ashley.politz@laaap.org or fax to 225.379.7921.

Note: Each training is limited to 50 participants. Your registration must be received no later
than one week prior to the training.
 Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program is
accredited by the Louisiana State Medical Society to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.

Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program designates this

educational activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.

Accreditation:

Office of Public Health Continuing Nursing Education Program is accredited

as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

A Maximum of 2.0 nursing contact hours is provided for this activity.

Special Accommodations:
Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program and the Office of Public
Health Continuing Nursing Education Programs fully comply with the legal requirements
of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof.

If any participant of the “Asthma Healthcare Professionals Conference on the

National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Guidelines” activity
offered by Office of Public Health Continuing Medical Education Program and the Office
of Public Health Continuing Nursing Education Program is in need of accommodation,
please do not hesitate to call Mark Anthony Perry, B.S., MPA at phone 225-342-2673 or
fax 225-342-2652 by May 19, 2010 in order to receive the service.