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Asthma Health Screening Planning
Jamecca Jones, Spring 2004
• Obtain permission to use asthma assessment tools from organization.
Mr. Kemp will know how to proceed.
• Ask Amy and Mr. Amador about teacher schedules and appropriate times
to visit each class. Once times are discussed, develop a schedule to administer
the asthma assessment tools. Also collaborate with Amy and Mr. Amador on writing
a letter explaining the tool and requesting parental permission to be sent
home with the children.
• Visit each class at Zaragoza Elementary and distribute the children’s
assessment tool. Explain directions for completion to the children and teachers.
Then remain in the classroom until the children have completed the tool.
• Then administer the parent’s tool for the children to take home
and have their parents complete. Inform the children that they will receive
a prize if they return the parent tools the following week.
• Once the tools have been gathered, then review and determine the children
most at risk for asthma and asthma related complications.
• To organize the tools, keep them in a binder using a tab for each
classroom, filing them in alpha order, and categorizing according to grades.
• Then create a spreadsheet document of the most at risk students.
• These students are to receive a letter to take home to their parents
explaining their condition and the complications that may result. The letter
would also ask them to attend Agape for pulmonary function tests and prescription
of medications or a health fair could be organized at Zaragoza for after school
or at night, just for these children. There PFTs, medications, and educational
materials could be distributed. Be sure to form folders and include a plan
of care for follow-up.
• Continue to follow-up on these children on Wednesdays during home
visits on a case by case basis and Thursday afternoons with Amy Hillin by
completing the School Assessment Form included in the blue binder.
** To make the task seem smaller, each clinical rotation could cover a grade
or set of grades. For example,
Spring 2004- Pattern A- Grades PK-K
Spring 2004- Pattern B- Grades 1st – 2nd
Fall 2005- Pattern A- Grades 3rd- 4th
Fall 2005- Pattern B-Grades 5th – 6th
** Tools from previous asthma screening studies are included along with a brief description of the study.