Sleep & Chronobiology for Psychiatric Nurses
This course is now closed to new registrations. Please check the APNA website for more information about future education programs.
APNA and University of Massachusetts Lowell offered an online course FREE OF CHARGE to the first 2500 APNA Members who registered.
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Registration is no longer open for the APNA Sleep and Chronobiology online course. This course aims to provide you with critical fundamental knowledge to understand the relationship between sleep, health and the implications of impaired sleep to psychiatric illness. The course consists of 12 self-paced learning modules. The first nine modules contain basic content for all psychiatric nurses. The remaining three modules are designed to address advanced practice issues, but all are welcome to take the entire 12 modules, if advanced learning is sought.
Contact hours* are based on either the completion of 9 or 12 modules (27-36 CE’s). There is a 4-month time limit to complete the course from the day you are assigned to start. For example, if you register in January 2009, you will have until May 31, 2009 to finish the course. If you register in February 2009, you must finish the course by June 30, 2009.
As a psychiatric nurse, if you have had the following questions or concerns, then you will benefit from this course:
- How come patients have a hard time getting to sleep and then can't get up in the morning (or vice versa)?
- What is behind the person who sleeps for 14 hours a day and always complains of sleepiness? Medication strategies for this person?
- How does sleep really interact with the course of depression, psychosis, mania, anxiety disorders? What are the evidence-based approaches to medication?
- What does snoring have to do with psychiatric illness?
- How do I specifically develop strategies aimed at disruptions in sleep and wakefulness in people living with psychiatric illnesses?
- How do I assess sleep in children, adolescents, adults and elders and then make a plan of care based on evidence-based knowledge?
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* Course has been approved for 36 contact hours by the Maryland Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center
The course is co-sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and APNA. The faculty member and course developer is Geoffry Phillips McEnany, PhD, APRN, BC.
