Workshop 3: Device matters | SOLD OUT
| Friday, May 2, 2025 |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Grand Ballroom |
Details
Are you familiar with all the inhaler devices available for the management of asthma and COPD? Need a refresher on inhaler techniques? Do you understand why each step is important? Can you identify common and critical errors?
Incorrect inhaler technique is unacceptably frequent and has not improved over the past 40 years. Up to 94% of patients do not use their inhaler devices correctly. Up to 85% of health professionals cannot correctly demonstrate optimal use of inhalers.
Join advanced practice pharmacist Debbie Rigby and Lung Foundation Australia nurse educators in this hands-on interactive workshop. Each participant receives a box containing all the placebo devices and accompanying Lung Foundation Australia resources.
Learning objectives:
1. Choose the most appropriate inhaler device for a patient.
2. Appraise differences and benefits of inhaler devices.
3. Describe the breathing technique required to achieve optimal lung deposition.
4. Identify your role in optimising inhaled medicines.
5. Identify resources to support evidence-based resources management of patients with asthma and COPD.
Competency Standards (2016): 1.4, 1.5, 3.5.
Speaker
Miss Joy Gailer
Senior Pharmacist
Drug And Therapeutics Information Service
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Biography
Joy is a credentialed Advanced Practice Pharmacist and US Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist pharmacist with the Drug and Therapeutics Information Service (DATIS), and the practice support clinical pharmacist at Chandlers Hill Surgery. She is passionate about assisting patients, pharmacists, doctors and nurses make the best possible decisions relating to medicine use.
A/Prof Debbie Rigby
Director
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Biography
Debbie is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist with postgraduate qualifications in clinical pharmacy, geriatrics and respiratory medicine. Debbie is a member of Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Respiratory Community of Special Interest and Respiratory Pharmacy Taskforce, and Consultant Pharmacist CSI. Debbie is the Clinical Executive Lead to National Asthma council Australia. Debbie conducts Home Medicine Reviews from a GP practice and provides medicines education to pharmacists, nurses, GPs and other health professionals through her company Pharmeducation.
Dr Andrew Stafford
Senior Lecturer, Curtin Medical School
Curtin University, Perth
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Biography
Andrew is an academic and an accredited pharmacist with an interest in optimising medicine use in older people. His experience in aged care has spanned the residential and community sectors, and he currently provides medication reviews and QUM services for a number of providers in Western Australia. Andrew’s research interests include the development and assessment of programs that aim to optimise healthcare for older people, especially through the quality use of medicines. Through his teaching experience in Tasmanian and Western Australian universities, he is an accomplished educator, particularly within consultant pharmacy practice.
