Asthma Educator Certification Preparation Course
It’s been In Demand. Now it’s On Demand.
By taking the AARC’s online Asthma Educator Certification Preparation Course, you can:
- Prepare yourself for the AE-C test offered by the NAECB
- Earn 10.5 CRCE credits
- Refresh your personal knowledge about asthma care
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AE-C Prep Course Learning Objectives:
- Describe key content areas covered by the National Asthma Education Certification Board (NAECB) examination
- Identify key skills for asthma educators
- Describe the difference between obstructive and restrictive disease
- Explain how to assure definitive and reproducible pulmonary function testing results
- Discuss the pitfalls to communication
- Explain various questioning techniques
- Explain current “best” practice of pharmacologic management of asthma
- Compare the characteristics of different inhalation devices currently available and define patterns of acceptable inhalation technique for each
- Explain the rationale/role and value of patient education
- Identify barriers to effective learning
- Describe strategies and techniques to improve test-taking techniques
Pricing
- $165—AARC members save $60
- $225—non-members
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Continuing Education
This course carries 10.5 hours of CRCE credit. You must view all modules. No partial credit given. Upon successful completion of a post-course examination, you will receive a certificate and the hours will automatically be posted to your AARC CRCE transcript.
Requirements
- Adobe Flash version 8 or higher
- A sound card and speakers or headphones
Asthma Educator Certification Preparation Course
10.5 CRCE credits
| Go to AARC University to purchase this course and access course materials |
Conflict of Interest/Commercial Support Statement
None of the planners, faculty or their spouses has any relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers and/or corporations whose products or services are related to pertinent therapeutic areas. Off-label: (using products for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration) use will not be discussed in this course. This educational activity has not received commercial support.
- This course will be available for nurses through March 2015.
- Karen L. Gregory discloses that she serves on the speakers bureau for Novartis, Genetech, Monaghan Medical Corporation, Glaxo Smith Klein and Pharmaxis and receives honorariums for presentations from these companies. Content reviewers have evaluated this activity for potential bias and have found that the course is balanced in presentation and evidence-based content is provided.
- None of the other presenters or planning committee members in this course have declared a conflict of interest related to their participation in this course.
- Brand names may be mentioned as examples of technology but are not endorsed by the AARC or any of the presenters or planning committee members.
- Participants who attend the entire activity, complete the post-test satisfactorily (70% or higher) and complete an evaluation form will earn 10.5 contact hours.
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Ohio Nurses Association (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
