Pediatric Sleep: Distinguishing Between Normal Developmental Changes and Common Childhood Sleep Disorders

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Pediatric Sleep: Distinguishing Between Normal Developmental Changes and Common Childhood Sleep Disorders

Recorded for 2025 National Conference

Credit(s):

0.97 Contact Hour(s) of CE; 0.24 of which may be applied towards Pharmacology

Program Number:

25057197

Original Program Date:

June 20, 2025

Duration:

58 minutes

Access:

Available until July 15, 2026

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Category: 2025 National Conference, Cert Exam Domain - Assessment, Cert Exam Domain - Diagnosis ... (show more)

Category: 2025 National Conference, Cert Exam Domain - Assessment, Cert Exam Domain - Diagnosis, Detailed Assessment & Documentation, Health Equities, Health Promotion, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Recent Additions, Social Determinants of Health (show less)

Subcategory: Sleep Disorder

Subcategory: Sleep Disorder
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Activity Duration

Content Expires:

July 15, 2026 (11:55 p.m. CT)
CE for this activity will not be available after this date.

This CE activity was recorded for the 2025 AANP National Conference.

This activity includes closed captioning.

Delivery Note: The content for this activity was previously presented during the 2025 AANP National Conference. If you already completed the content of this activity while attending the live or virtual conference, you should not complete this content a second time. Learners should only complete ONE delivery-method to earn credit. Completing multiple delivery options for the same activity is considered duplicate credit for the same content and will not be accepted by regulatory bodies.

Overview
Sleep is a period of intense brain growth and restoration. Quality sleep is an important part of physiologic, emotional, and neurocognitive development. Individual variability in sleep need is influenced by behavioral, medical, environmental, and cultural factors. The consequences of poor sleep results in chronic health conditions, mood dysregulation, school failure, obesity, and an increase in risk taking behaviors. Up to 50% of children will experience a sleep problem that will be brought to the primary care provider's attention. This session will provide an overview of the development of the sleep-wake cycle, how achievement of developmental milestones can affect the sleep-wake cycle, the effect of sleep deprivation on the prefrontal cortex, executive functioning, and the elements necessary for developing and supporting adequate quality and quantity of sleep throughout childhood and adolescence. Social determinants of health, cultural practices, and environmental factors that affect a child's ability to achieve adequate sleep will be reviewed as these elements play a part in how sleep issues are defined as problems. The history for and an assessment of sleep concerns to rule out medical sleep disorders will be reviewed. During this session, the currently available pharmaceutical interventions for pediatric sleep issues will be reviewed.

Objectives

Understand the connection between poor sleep quality and behavior or mood issues.
Identify environmental, social and cultural factors that affect an infant, child, or adolescent’s ability to get adequate sleep.
Differentiate between normal developmental changes in sleep and a sleep disorder.
Identify the elements of a thorough sleep history and assessment to rule out a medical cause for a sleep issue.
Explain how to manage common sleep problems in infants, children, and adolescents.
Understand how to utilize medications effectively to manage sleep issues (Rx).

Speaker
Ann Sheehan, DNP, CPNP, FAANP

Disclosure
This program was planned in accordance with AANP CE Standards and Policies.

The speaker has the following disclosures:

I have no disclosures.
I have no financial relationships to disclose.

Disclaimer
Individuals who have contributed to the CE Center (content originally from the 2025 AANP National Conference) were carefully selected for their knowledge and experience in the subject area under review. This presentation is informational only and may contain opinions of the authors from their personal experience that do not necessarily express the opinions of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings. Clinical practice is a constantly changing process and new information becomes available every day. Neither AANP nor the contributing individuals can warrant that the material will continue to be accurate, nor do they warrant that the material is completely free of errors upon publication. Attendees and participants should appraise the information presented critically and are encouraged to consult appropriate resources for any product or device mentioned in this program.

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0.97 Contact Hour(s) of CE,
0.24 of which may be applied towards Pharmacology