Advanced Practice Providers’ Perspectives on Sleep Disorders: Impact of Insomnia on Patient Health

Wendy L. Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP, and Debra Davis, CRN, provide an overview of the prevalence of insomnia in clinical practice.

Advanced practice practitioners discuss different types of sleep disorders in the general population and their impact on quality of life.

Wendy L. Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP, and Debra Davis, CRN, discuss the relationship between sleep disorders and other health conditions, such as cardiovascular, respiratory, and psychiatric diseases.

Advanced practice practitioners share tools they use in their clinics to diagnose sleep disorders.

Advanced nurse practitioners talk about the importance of early diagnosis of insomnia and other sleep disorders.

Dr Wendy Wright and Debra Davis review treatment options for sleep disorders, including benzodiazepines, z-drugs, and dual orexin receptor antagonists (DORAs) and their treatment selection criteria.

Wendy Wright and Debra Davis provide an overview of pathways and neurotransmitters involved in sleep and wake cycles.

Advanced practice practitioners discuss dual orexin receptor antagonists (DORAs) suvorexant, lemborexant, and daridorexant for the treatment of sleep disorders.

Drs Wendy Wright and Debra Davis provide an overview of phase 3 trial data for the most recently FDA approved DORA, daridorexant, for the treatment of insomnia.

Advanced practice practitioners discuss how they assess treatment response and patient adherence in insomnia, and considerations for changing treatment.

Dr Wendy Wright and Debra Davis comment on unmet needs in insomnia and other sleep disorders.

Advanced practice practitioners share final pearls with their colleagues for the management of sleep disorders.