Heinrich (2008) asserts one should end with a call to action. For asthma, all pediatric nurses need to increase their awareness of asthma prevalence in childhood and the impact on children’s quality of life, as well as the cost burden associated with ED visits and hospitalizations. Further, all pediatric nurses can help reinforce adherence to prescribed asthma medications to promote good asthma control in their own patient population. Regardless of whether asthma care is provided at school, a health center, a physician’s office, the ED, or inpatient, appropriate management of the child with asthma is imperative to prevent serious complications and even death (Velsor-Friedrich & Foley,
2001).