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Asthma Patient Education (Adult Onset) From Nursing Perspective

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Asthma Patient Education (Adult Onset) From Nursing Perspective

Asthma has been known as a long chronic disease, the most common symptoms for adult asthmatic patients can be difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, and wheezing, there is no cure for asthma up to now but with the right education, management and treatment asthmatic people can live a healthy and normal life. The main purpose of conducting this study was to investigate the needs of asthma patient education, and how nurses can effectively promote the patient’s quality of life. The research questions that have been guiding this study are 1. What are the needs of asthma patient education? 2. How can a nurse effectively demonstrate teaching strategies for an adult asthmatic patient? Inductive qualitative content analysis has been conducted as a method for data analysis in this study, that focuses on nurses´ role and asthma education. The data collection of this research consists of 10 scientific articles. The used theory for this study was Barbara Carper´s (1978) Fundamental patterns of knowing which focuses on four patterns of knowing in the nursing profession. The study results show that a good knowledge of asthma nurses and patients is vital and needed in disease control, through asthma nurse educators, the patients’ needs are met, by working in partnership and taking care of patients’ mental health during the teaching process, such as medication adherence, providing proper knowledge, open communication, delivering up-to-date instructions, and information. Additionally, effective demonstration of proper inhaler devices techniques is essential for asthma patients to manage and promote their quality of life. The study stated, every adult asthmatic patient should be provided a personal asthma action plan which should be made jointly with their asthma nurse educator to be able to control their asthma self-management and related issues.

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