Sleep Disorders
Course #98883 - $60 -
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Sleep is one of the most vital processes of life and serves many functions, including preservation, restoration, and memory processing. Repeated disruption of the natural sleep cycle or failure to initiate sleep (i.e., sleep disorder) can lead to a sleep deficit, which in turn causes physical, mental, and emotional fatigue. This is evidenced by the fact that many individuals with a sleep disorder express a reduction in quality of life. This course will provide information regarding the physiology of sleep; the causes, risk factors, epidemiology, and physiology of a variety of sleep disorders; diagnosis, including patient history, assessment of sleep habits, physical examination, laboratory tests, and sleep studies; and treatments to improve sleep patterns, including lifestyle/behavioral change (i.e., "sleep hygiene"), medication interventions, and other treatment options for patients.
- INTRODUCTION
- THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SLEEP
- OVERVIEW OF SLEEP DISORDERS
- INSOMNIAS
- SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDERS
- CENTRAL DISORDERS OF HYPERSOMNOLENCE
- CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP-WAKE DISORDERS
- PARASOMNIAS
- SLEEP-RELATED MOVEMENT DISORDERS
- DIAGNOSING AND TREATING SLEEP DISORDERS WITH THE HELP OF AN INTERPRETER
- CONCLUSION
- Works Cited
- Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations Citations
This course is designed for all healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and mental health practitioners, who are involved in the care of patients experiencing a sleep-related disorder.
Many of the complications associated with sleep disorders are preventable, making early diagnosis and appropriate treatment vital. The purpose of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with the information necessary to identify and effectively treat sleep disorders, thereby improving patients' quality of life and preventing possible complications.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Discuss the physiology of normal sleep.
- Describe the classification of sleep disorders.
- Compare and contrast the types of insomnias and their associated diagnosis and treatment.
- Evaluate the major types of sleep-related breathing disorders, particularly obstructive sleep apnea.
- Identify the clinical signs and symptoms of narcolepsy.
- Outline the characteristics of non-narcolepsy hypersomnias.
- Analyze the complications and symptoms of circadian rhythm sleep disorders.
- Describe the characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of parasomnias.
- Evaluate the presentation and treatment of sleep-related movement disorders.
- Assess considerations for patients with sleep disorder who have low English literacy.
Teisha Phillips, RN, BSN, received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Point Loma Nazarene University in 2005. She has nursing experience in a variety of clinical settings including multispecialty outpatient surgery, fertility, women's health, and cosmetic/aesthetic nursing. Her primary focus and passion is on direct patient care and patient education. She is presently employed as a perioperative nurse at an outpatient surgery center in the greater Sacramento area.
Contributing faculty, Teisha Phillips, RN, BSN, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
John M. Leonard, MD
Jane C. Norman, RN, MSN, CNE, PhD
Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW
James Trent, PhD
Randall L. Allen, PharmD
The division planners have disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
Sarah Campbell
The Director of Development and Academic Affairs has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
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The role of implicit biases on healthcare outcomes has become a concern, as there is some evidence that implicit biases contribute to health disparities, professionals' attitudes toward and interactions with patients, quality of care, diagnoses, and treatment decisions. This may produce differences in help-seeking, diagnoses, and ultimately treatments and interventions. Implicit biases may also unwittingly produce professional behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that reduce patients' trust and comfort with their provider, leading to earlier termination of visits and/or reduced adherence and follow-up. Disadvantaged groups are marginalized in the healthcare system and vulnerable on multiple levels; health professionals' implicit biases can further exacerbate these existing disadvantages.
Interventions or strategies designed to reduce implicit bias may be categorized as change-based or control-based. Change-based interventions focus on reducing or changing cognitive associations underlying implicit biases. These interventions might include challenging stereotypes. Conversely, control-based interventions involve reducing the effects of the implicit bias on the individual's behaviors. These strategies include increasing awareness of biased thoughts and responses. The two types of interventions are not mutually exclusive and may be used synergistically.