Learning

Building and Honing Your Skills as an Asthma Navigator

Review

To refresh your training, review the BACK In-person training slides

2024 In Person Training Slides

Day 1: Inhaler technique, Interviewing for data collection, Partnering with schools, HCPs and families

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Day 2: Motivational Interviewing

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Day 3: Student recruitment, Medication review, Interviewing to build rapport, Teaching caregivers, Teaching students

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Day 4, 2024: Tailoring teaching and applying MI, Role plays, Next steps

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Stay Up-To-Date

You’ll also participate in monthly Learning Community Meetings. In these COPLs, we discuss adaptations using the stoplight model and guardrails. Find our stoplight adaptations in resources as well as guardrails.

This is a good time to ask questions and learn more.

Additional Courses

Navigators have taken these types of courses as part of their training:

  • Community health worker/navigator training
  • American Lung Association asthma training                                                                  
  • Reach the Peak Asthma Educator training 
  • BACK program training                                          
  • Monthly Learning Community meetings which are half skill building and intervention training
  • Trauma-informed care training 
  • CDPHE training on Social Determinants Of Health 

Familiarize Yourself With REDCap

The REDCap Page lists additional resources and links to recorded information.

Archive: 2023 In Person Training Slides

Day 1:Asthma Training, Project Overview, Asthma Navigator Role, Data Collection and REDCap Overview, Social Determinants of Health

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Day 2: Visit structure, Review Visit 1 and Role Play, Inhaler technique, Review Visit 2-3 and Role Play, RedCap Practice

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Day 3: Working in School Settings, Optimizing Behavior Change, Inhaler teaching session, Adverse Events training, Working in Healthcare Settings, Case Management and Care Coordination, Playbook

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Navigators lead the way to better asthma control

Key Community Partners
• Children’s Hospital Colorado Breathing Institute
• ACCORDS – Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science
• State and Community Advisory Boards
• Scientific Advisory Board
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
• Denver Public School District School Nurses
• Acclaro Design, Inc.
• Trailhead Institute
• National Association of School Nurses
• Colorado Department of Education Nursing Services

AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION NOTIFICATION
For our multi-lingual users: this site uses an automatic Google translation to help communicate messages about managing childhood asthma. Google translate is the most efficient tool for this purpose available to the program at the moment. There may be instances when, given the nature of an automatic translation, the translated messaging falls short or lacks appropriate cultural context. If you’d like to make us aware of these situations, please contact us.

DISCLAIMER: THIS WEBSITE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS, OR TREATMENT.
The information on this website, including but not limited to text, graphics, videos, images and other material, are for health informational purposes and to support a tailored asthma care plan developed by a student’s team of asthma health care professionals. No material on this site is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a student’s asthma care, and never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website