Sleep Medicine for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

April 17-18, 2010
$625

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.