Using a matrix as an educational approach to asthma

☆ Sandra Wiesemann is a Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist in Community Health Nursing. She is the Nurse Educator/Project Coordinator for the School Health Asthma Study, which is a cooperative effort with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the New York City Department of Health Bureau of School Health, the Medical and Health Research Association of New York City, Inc, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Prior to this, Ms Wiesemann worked in the New York City public schools as a Public Health Nurse for the NYC Department of Health.

☆☆ Jane Andersen, RN, MS, is the Pediatric Pulmonary Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary at Children's Hospital of New York at Columbia University.

★ For the purpose of this manuscript, are examples of matrices. They were originally in a periodical for family physicians, thus the reference to doctor/MD. However, advance practice nurses can readily use them in their practice.

★★ Reprint requests: Benay Johnson, RN, MSN, CPNP, Children's Hospital of New York, 3959 Broadway BH 7 South, New York, NY 10032.

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doi: 10.1067/mph.2003.27

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