Asthma Awareness
 

Course Overview
This course provides participants with an understanding of paediatric asthma, its management, and emergency response procedures to support children safely in healthcare, educational, and community settings.
 
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand what asthma is and how it affects the airways

• Recognise common asthma triggers

• Identify signs and symptoms of worsening asthma

• Differentiate between controlled asthma and an acute asthma attack

• Safely administer asthma medication and inhalers

• Respond appropriately to an asthma emergency

• Follow individual healthcare plans and organisational policies
   

Practical Skills Session

• Inhaler and spacer use

• Asthma emergency scenarios

• Case study discussions

• Confidence-building exercises
   

Suitable For

• School and nursery staff

• Healthcare assistants

• Nurses

• Carers and support workers

• Social care staff

• Residential care staff

• Parents and family carers
   

Optional Competency Assessment
Where required, participants can undertake practical competency assessment and sign-off to demonstrate safe asthma management within their workplace setting.