Glenda Woodward

Asthma Educator
Local Immunisation Coordinator

Asthma Desktop Tool

The asthma desktop tool has been developed by the Yorke Peninsula Division of General Practice Inc. The development of the guide was funded through a National Asthma Community Grant.

The guide is a self-supporting, A5 size, two-sided flip chart with educational information for the person with asthma on one side and health professional current asthma guidelines on the other.

The aim is to promote consistent asthma messages re current guidelines to medical/allied health personnel and improve and standardise asthma information used and disseminated to consumers.

  The Asthma desktop tool consists of four sections  

The first section
The cover which has a good diagram of the lungs which can be
used to explain what Asthma is.

 Asthma_guidelines_front_cover.pdf
The second section
Is used to prompt the health professional when educating patients about Asthma.

Asthma_pt_educ_prompts.pdf

The third section
Contains Asthma assessment, Asthma emergency management
and guides for inhaled corticosteroids doses.		 Asthma_guidelines_H_Prof.pdf
The final section
Containing questions that could be asked during the consult and acknowledgements.		 Asthma_guidelines_final_page.pdf

REFERENCES

1. Asthma Management Handbook 2002 5th edition
2. Emergency Management of Asthma (NAC) www.nationalasthma.org.au
3. Pharmacotherapeutic Management of Asthma; National Prescribing Service, Nov 2003

Prepared by:  The Yorke Peninsula Division of General Practice 

Dr John Campbell - MBChB, DRCOG, DFFP, FRACGP
Sharon Campbell - RGN, Honours in Health Science
Glenda Woodward - RGN, Dip AppSc Nursing, Asthma Educator

Gratitude is expressed to all those who contributed to this document
Dr Kerry Hancock, General Practitioner, Adelaide SA, member of General Practitioner’s Asthma Group
Nigel Cooper Asthma SA

Funded through:  Asthma Australia - Asthma Community Grants Program

For more information contact:  
Glenda Woodward
The Yorke Peninsula Division of General Practice Inc.
Ph: (08) 8821 4066