April 14-15, 2012 - $625 (Atlanta, GA)
This course is developed specifically for nurse practitioners and physician assistants to integrate their skills into a sleep medicine practice. The curriculum also showcases ways in which the nurse practitioners and physician assistants can play a pivotal role in many specialties by learning more about sleep medicine.
*Course Curriculum
- Normal Sleep/Sleep and Aging
- Technical Aspects of Diagnosing Sleep Disorders
- The Spectrum of Insomnia
- Circadian Rhythm Disorders of Sleep
- Parasomnias
- Legal Implications of Excessive Sleepiness
- Evaluating the Patient with Sleep Complaints/Deciphering the Sleep Report
- The Impact of Incorporating Sleep Medicine into a Medical Practice
- Live Patient Case Studies
- Laboratory Tour and Sleep Patient Setup
- Sleep Disordered Breathing
- Cardiac Disease and Sleep Disorders
- Neurological Disorders and Sleep
- Restless Legs Syndrome and Limb Movements of Sleep
- Narcolepsy
* The curriculum is subject to change.
If you would like to learn more about the development of nurse practitioners and physician assistants for a role in sleep medicine read the article written by the Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine & Technology's Medical Director, Michael Lacey, MD, D.ABSM in March 2009's Sleep Review magazine.