COPD (BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA)

Managing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Enabling health and community care professionals to manage and care for sufferers according
to National Standards

How this course can help you.

A report, called “Breathing Fear”, suggested that only one in four people with a potentially fatal condition have it diagnosed. The condition is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and it is predicted that it will be the third largest killer by the year 2020 (British Thoracic Society). This course will enable you to manage the care of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) according to the standards of the British Thoracic Society and National
Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). The course is work-based and very flexible, accessed via the Web, with a book-marking facility allowing users to work through the courses at their own pace, breaking-off when and where they wish. Completion of the course is recognised with a Certificate - valuable for annual appraisals and/or CPD.

Course content

Aetiology and epidemiology of COPD

Diagnosis of COPD

Assessment of COPD

Therapeutic management of COPD

The role of patients and carers in managing COPD

Psychological impact

Managing stable COPD

Prevention and managing exacerbations of COPD

The use of pulmonary rehabilitation

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Explain the aetiology and epidemiology of COPD

Understand how COPD is diagnosed

Appreciate the methods used to asses and monitor COPD

Realise the role of patients and carers in managing COPD

Be aware of how stable COPD should be managed

Describe how exacerbations of COPD should be managed and prevented

Benefits of the course

The course will benefit the primary health care team by having health care professionals who have a deeper understanding of COPD. Users who successfully complete the elearning programme will have a deeper understanding of the current information of the British Thoracic Society and National Institute for Clinical Excellence Guidelines for the management of COPD in adults.
Not only serving as an invaluable tool for blended learning strategies, the e-learning approach is
especially suitable for service groups who may have difficulties releasing staff to attend training
sessions, or where local capacity to deliver sessions is not sufficient.