NPACE Notes: January 2025 Newsletter

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From the Director

Healthcare Areas That Challenge Me
By: Terri Schmitt PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP
Executive Director, NPACE 

As a multi-state practicing NP, some practice areas continue to be challenging to navigate stemming from complexity, changing legal landscapes, and lack of specialists to refer to or delay in care access to specialists. Areas I am seeking more clarity, guidance, and talking points include:

- Suicide awareness, screening, and intervention

- Substance use disorder assessment and treatment

- Improving maternal health outcomes, particularly in women of color and those in health deserts

- Increasing access and use of long-acting contraception

- Unintended pregnancy advice and management

- Addressing health disparities among minority populations.

- HIV prevention and treatment.

- Benzodiazepine use and prescribing

- Obesity prescribing (particularly in Florida for all advanced practice providers)

Monthly Article

Post-Holiday Fatigue or Sleep Apnea, What Did Santa Bring Me This Year?
Lisa Mathis MSN, FNP-BC, ANCC Program Director NPACE

The hustle and bustle of the holidays can bring a plethora of complaints to your office. All of the shopping and parties, along with playing Santa can cause excessive fatigue. When the patient presents to the office for a visit and the chief complaint is “Severe Fatigue”, what do you think? We immediately go to labs, is it the thyroid, are they anemic, what is the B12 level? What if they come back to normal? Unfortunately, as clinicians, we will call the patient and say, “I have great news, your labs all look normal, so get more rest and I’ll see you in 6 months.” But is this the answer? Are we doing all we can to treat this patient appropriately? As APPs, we pride ourselves on going above and beyond. I took that extra time with the patient and collected the little details. Let’s try this instead….

  When a patient presents with severe fatigue, labs are normal. Ask some simple questions.

• How do you sleep?
• Do you feel rested?
• Do you snore?
• Do you have a morning headache?
• Are you falling asleep during the day?

(There are questionnaires you can place in your exam rooms)

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