Introduction

Asthma is essentially a chronic a very serious disease that affects the respiratory system of a human being, especially of the airways and it is normally characterized by the obstruction of the airways, hyperresponsiveness, and inflammation (National, & Prevention, 2007). Actually, when talking about asthma management and the stepwise approach, the principle that definitely comes to mind is the control of this disease due to the fact that it is a complicated disease.

The control of asthma emphasizes on the measures of preventing the so challenging symptoms associated with the disease such as wheezing, shortness of breath, frequent infections to the respiratory system as well as extreme coughing. According to Shaw et al. (2007), the effective control of asthma greatly lies on the ability of the advanced practice nurses to identify and make a distinction on the symptoms that are quite life-threatening together with a good understanding of the stepwise management approach for asthma treatment.

The Long-Term Control and Quick Relief Treatment

Essentially, there are two choices of asthma treatment; that is, the quick relief treatment and long-term control. However, it ought to be pointed out that the fundamental objective of this paper is to give a detailed description of these two choices of asthma treatment together with a detailed explanation of the stepwise approach to the management and treatment of asthma. Finally, how this approach can help healthcare providers in the control of asthma will be highly critical in this paper.