Online shift work sleep disorder treatment
Your work schedule may not follow the clock everyone else lives by. Your care should understand that. ClearLane offers shift-work sleep evaluation and medication management in Arizona, Florida, Ohio, and Washington.
When your schedule and your sleep fall out of step.
Night shifts, early starts, and rotating schedules can conflict with your internal body clock. Shift work sleep disorder involves insomnia, excessive sleepiness, or both, related to that schedule.
Not every tired shift worker has this disorder. Evaluation also considers sleep opportunity, sleep apnea, other medical conditions, mood, and medication effects.
Care built around your actual shift.
Bring your work schedule and, if possible, a recent sleep diary. Include workdays and days off, naps, caffeine use, commute time, and when you feel most sleepy. That detail helps us understand your pattern.
We discuss how sleep disruption affects your work, relationships, and recovery between shifts. If a sleep study or sleep-medicine referral would help, we explain why.
More than a prescription.
Treatment may involve a protected sleep window, changes to your sleep environment, carefully timed light exposure, and discussion of medication options. Timing matters, especially when your shifts rotate.
Medication management can be part of care, but it does not replace adequate sleep. Follow-up reviews alertness, sleep quality, side effects, and whether the plan works with your schedule.
Support across four states.
Appointments are available by secure video while you are in Arizona, Florida, Ohio, or Washington. Nurses, first responders, hospitality staff, and others working outside daytime hours can discuss a plan that accounts for their actual schedule.
Do not drive or operate hazardous equipment when you are too sleepy to do so safely. Arrange a safe ride or rest rather than trying to push through.
Read the shift-work guide.
Explore sleep strategies, what to expect from evaluation, and modafinil’s FDA-approved role in treating excessive sleepiness associated with shift work disorder.
Read: Shift Work Sleep Disorder, Sleep Strategies and Modafinil →
A few questions, answered
Can rotating shifts cause problems too?
Yes. Changing schedules can make it difficult to establish a consistent sleep pattern. Bring both your current schedule and upcoming changes to your visit.
Do I need a sleep study first?
Not everyone needs a sleep study. Your history guides whether testing or evaluation for another sleep disorder is appropriate.
Can you help with medication management?
Yes. We can evaluate medication options in the context of your symptoms, health, sleep schedule, and location. Your plan also addresses sleep opportunity and routines.
Is this available everywhere?
ClearLane currently offers this care in Arizona, Florida, Ohio, and Washington. You need to be in a state where the practice can provide your care at the appointment.
A clearer next step.
Bring your schedule. We will help you find a more workable approach to sleep and alertness.
Care with Courtney Wilder-Whiting, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-C, a dual-board-certified family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
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Learn more: Cleveland Clinic: shift work sleep disorder · Psychiatric medication management