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Wake Up -- Understanding and Treating Excessive Sleepiness
Continuing Education Credits for Healthcare Professionals
Credits
1 Contact Hour

Event Type
Home Study Webcast

Release Date
Monday, January 11, 2010

Expiration Date
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Target Audience
Nurse, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician

Program Cost
$2.00 - Free For Members



Program Overview
This program is designed to educate pharmacists on the treatments for excessive sleepiness and offer them counseling points to communicate effectively with excessive sleepiness patients and providers in their role as a pharmacist.

Nurse Educational Objectives
  • Review the etiology and epidemiology of excessive sleepiness and its effect on quality of life, performance, and possibility of causing injury
  • Describe non-pharmacologic treatment options for the main sleep disorders that are causes of excessive sleepiness
  • Describe pharmacologic treatment options for the main sleep disorders that are causes of excessive sleepiness
Pharmacist Educational Objectives
  • Review the etiology and epidemiology of excessive sleepiness and its effect on quality of life, performance, and possibility of causing injury.
  • Describe non-pharmacologic treatment options for the main sleep disorders that are causes of excessive sleepiness.
  • Describe pharmacologic treatment options for the main sleep disorders that are causes of excessive sleepiness.
  • Describe the pharmacist's role in identifying and treating patients with excessive sleepiness.
Pharmacy Technician Educational Objectives
  • List causes of excessive daytime sleepiness

Activity Type
Knowledge

Accreditation
Nurse N-122209-486-H01
Pharmacist 0798-0000-09-091-H01-P
Pharmacy Technician 0798-0000-09-091-H01-T
PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing education. In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation. Attendees may immediately print their Statement of Credit or leave them stored on this website.
Pharmaceutical Education Consultants, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education for nurses by the Maryland Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Faculty
Elizabeth Montagnese , MD
Quittie Glen Center for Mental Health
Click Here For Curriculum Vitae


Financial Support By
Pharmcon, Inc

Program Documents
Homestudy PDF: Wake Up Handout