Webinar: The One Airway Challenge – Optimising Care for Asthma & Allergic Rhinitis
This webinar is sponsored by Glenmark and may contain promotional material. This webinar is for UK Healthcare professionals only
Webinar Details
This webinar is sponsored by Glenmark and may contain promotional material. This webinar is for UK Healthcare professionals only
The One Airway Challenge – Optimising Care for Asthma & Allergic Rhinitis
Webinar: 8pm - 9pm 17th October 2024
Three key takeaways
- An understanding of what the one airway challenge is and the importance of assessing the entire airway during as part of an asthma review
- Practical top tips on how to carry out your one airway assessments
- Greater understanding of treatment strategies which impact patient’s quality of life and asthma control
Speaker:
Emma Rickards, Respiratory Nurse Consultant based at the Knowsley Community Respiratory Team, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital.
Speaker
Emma Rickards,
Emma is a Consultant Respiratory Nurse who works for Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Knowsley Community Respiratory Service and she is passionate about reducing health inequalities in respiratory care.
Emma qualified as a nurse with a Bsc (Hons) in Nursing studies then soon after completed her Msc in Professional Practice with a pathway of difficult asthma. As a keen researcher/practitioner Emma is a PhD student studying End of Life Care for patients with COPD in ED and as part of her studies has undertaken her Mphil. For this, Emma has received the Florence Nightingale research scholarship 2017/2018 and again 2018/2019. Emma is also currently undertaking her MBA
Emma started her career working at the Northwest Lung Centre working in acute respiratory care. Emma has a passion for research were and she was fortunate enough to gain a post at the Clinical Trial Service Unit in Oxford. In 2007, she moved back to the North West Lung Centre, but this time worked in respiratory research at the Medicines Evaluation Unit.
In 2008 she was joined the respiratory team at Whiston Hospital providing acute in reach care. The integration of services led Emma to work across both the community and hospital setting where she later became to Oxygen Lead for Knowsley and Liverpool Heart & Chest as well as the Early Supported Discharge clinical Matron. During this time Emma has gained numerous qualifications in advanced respiratory care, COPD, Spirometry, Oxygen, diabetes, asthma, research and various management and leadership qualifications. She also has a variety of publications and abstracts surrounding different elements of respiratory care.
Emma is the Vice Chair of the Respiratory Disease Sub Committee and Respiratory Nurse Acute Care Lead for ARNS.
