Anjali Nath and Krista Ward from Breathe CA reviewed their assessment of the evaluations.
Points to note:
Need for larger room –possible options include Laurel Heights $212 for ½ day,
CHN building,
Topics of interest:
Spirometry – Gloria posed the question about whether people really need to be trained on spirometry or whether they actually refer for this
Patient cases
Linking ER to PCP
Gloria brought up the challenge of standardizing care through health plans.
Some suggestions:
Stickers to mark charts in day care centers
Advocate for prompted progress note
Beef up patient education and advocate to have it integrated into regular visit
LCR prompts
Give them a way to self-rate; give them a menu and have them prioritize 3 and we can help them with those; Where do they really need to start?
Clarify role of spirometry at each site
Karen listed requirements used in Prop 10 grant:
Do a chart audit
Pull chart audit and make sure flu vaccine was given
Classify child by severity
Feedback received by Gail:
Some people felt that they were duplicating services that are already provided at SFGH Peds Clinic.
Feedback about Meeting:
Overall really good
Food good
Too many speakers, rushed, everyone went over time
Karen reported on her research on the Environmental Systems Change grant from The California Endowment.
Article indicated that poverty is not an indication of susceptibility to disease
Follow-up to meeting:
Send back Next Step Form or
Phone Call Followup: Remind about Next Step Commitments, Self-rating questions, Certificates, Send out compilation of next steps, find out how many people need laminated poster, who needs to retake exam
Thank you notes to Speakers
SFATF would like to urge AAE revise the AE-C Exam
Would like to move forward on suggestion to create an Asthma Educator Network Newsletter
SFATF Contact list
Karen suggested making the next meeting more interactive maybe with a few talks. More about what participants are experiencing and make it more about participants interacting.
Anjali announced that SFATF has
Marie announced that the ATF Schools Committee work is really paying off and the impact on the
Contact Sheet:
Gail
School Nurse of Day for Public School Issues
Stacey for CDC resources
Karen – Enviro resources
Gloria & Rowena – Qs related to Health Plan members
Peg Strub
Anjali as contact person
d. Karen reported that still trying to encourage participants to schedule their exams; Karen asked if committee will authorize payment for new interested people to take the AE-C exam. Committee agreed as long as MOU is set that requires review of slides and perhaps audio course. Also agreed to pay for retakes for people who already participated and those who haven’t taken exam yet.
Other options - Vendor is also available to do a Case Study Review Course, and
Becoming an Asthma Case Manager course
à Gail and Nan could do a review course.
Peg requested that Gail or Nan come to Kaiser
Next full meeting in March/April
Coaching sessions, M,T, Th afternoon
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Anjali will:
-type up the Next Steps Brainstorm sheets and email out to committee and also publish to participants.
-compile comprehensive contact list
-get compilation of Feb training from Karen
- send Thank you cards to speakers
- compile resource/contact info
- begin putting info together for a newsletter
Gail and Nan will work together to put on a review course/coaching sessions for the exam
Gail will work with Peg to do a review course at Kaiser
Committee will plan for next Asthma Network meeting for March/April
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