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Brain Freeze? Navigating Staring Spells and Inattention in Children: 2025 Summer CE Mini-Series Part 2

CE Information
1.0 CE credit
Completion Time
1 hour
Available Until
September 1, 2026
Posted By
Alabama NAPNAP
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Overview

Specialties
Adult, Family, NP Student, Pediatric, and Psychiatric / Mental Health
Clinical Topics
Epilepsy, Pediatrics, and Primary Care

 Dr. Katherine Thaggard, neurologist at Children's of Alabama, shares her expertise of assessment, diagnosis and treatment of inattention and staring spells during an hour long previously recorded Zoom presentation. 

Learning Objectives

a. Recognize the nuanced presentations of inattention and staring spells, elucidating the differential diagnosis and overlapping features with epilepsy.
b. Understand the range of evidence-based tools and interventions for evaluating inattention and staring spells and how to incorporate these tools in pediatric care setting to foster accurate diagnosis (eg. for ADHD) or optimal referrals (eg. for Epilepsy).
c. Identify and address challenges - such as resource limitations and time constraints - inherent in diagnosing inattention and staring spells within the healthcare setting, and outlining effective first-line treatments linked to improved patient outcomes.

CE Information

This activity offers 1.0 CE credit to attendees.

Accredited by NAPNAP is approved as a provider of nursing continuing education by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Quality Assurance, BON Accreditation (CE Provider #: 50-8626). NAPNAP is approved as provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 16770..

“This program is accredited for 1.0 NAPNAP CE contact hours of which 0.0 contain pharmacology (Rx) content, (0.0 related to psychopharmacology), per the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Continuing Education Guidelines.”

CE Certificate will be available after viewing recording and completing Post-Evaluation. 

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  • Starring Spells Presentation (Size: 3.35 MB)
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Duration: about 1 hour | Quality: HD
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