Nurses in Allergy Commitee

We are very pleased to report that our first Annual Nurses study day went ahead in April. We had 80 attendees and are very grateful to all of our 11 speakers. Our sessions aimed to update practice and we covered areas such as food allergy, drug allergy, asthma, apps/ technology, and allergic rhinitis. We have had some positive feedback which we hope to build into our offering for next year.

The next project in the pipeline for us was to update the ‘Allergy Nurse Competency Document’. However this project will now be taken on by the British Allergy Education Network

(BAEN), a multi-disciplinary group with a broader perspective of education and competency needs across the UK. We look forward to supporting them with this project where we can, and have passed on your questionnaire responses from last year.

This means our next task will now be to begin updating some of the information leaflets/SOP’s available on the BSACI website, starting with ‘how to use a nasal spray’ and ‘nasal douching’. We hope to modernise their appearance and review the content. Please get in touch if you have any comments or suggestions on changes you’d find useful.

As always we welcome any and all communication via nurses@bsaci.org and invite you to follow us on Twitter @BSACInurses