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These are activities that expand general practice knowledge, skills and attitudes, related to your scope of practice.
These are activities that require reflection on feedback about your work.
These are activities that use your work data to ensure quality results.
Recognise this scenario? You prescribe an inhaler for the patient. You educate the patient on why they need the inhaler. You draw diagrams. You demonstrate the technique on the placebo inhaler. You write the script. And then… you cross your fingers.
Inhalers are such a fundamental component of asthma and COPD treatment. Optimal management of both these conditions largely depends on the correct use of these devices but let’s face it, their use isn’t that intuitive.
Here’s where these resources can really be of vital importance.
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