Nursing Educational Consulting Services

Individual and Group Educational Presentations

Autism Overview Part I – It’s just not all in your head!
Participants will learn about the possible causes of autism, brief anatomy lesson and how autism affects individuals including communication-sensory-movement and social issues, the many treatments and therapies available, knowing the different “camps” in the world of autism and more!

Autism Overview Part II- De-mystify to De-stigmatize!
Learn to look at the person with autism as the beautiful and unique person that he/she is by acknowledging the strengths, understanding the challenges and knowing that “behaviors” have meaning. Learn to challenge yourself to help to decrease the stigma and to assist the community with embracing our loved ones and the families affected by autism. This session will better prepare you to interact with a person with autism on any personal or professional level.

The autism overview presentations can be tailored to your group. This is a great presentation for churches, youth groups, law enforcement, attorneys, DA’s, community organizations, YMCA staff, daycare providers, school district personnel, county MHMR and provider staff, physicians and medical professionals, college students and professors, personnel from restaurants and other businesses that have or will eventually encounter individuals with autism and their families.

Home Schooling your Child with Autism
This session will assist you with implementing, transitioning or improving your home educational program for your child with autism or other special needs. Participants will learn how to create home ed lesson plans, write and assess goals, incorporate communication, sensory, motor and social needs into the schedule, use community resources, create a portfolio, review required documentation, get the most out of the computer and more! The many benefits of home schooling a child with special needs are reviewed. Your kid will love you even more for taking this session!

Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Learn how to use assistive technology for communication- from beginning to independence-practical and functional ideas to utilize and practice. This is an excellent resource for individuals with autism, families, caretakers and professionals.

The DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!) Protocol Overview
It's just not all in your head! Learn about the biomedical and nutritional therapies available in your community for individuals with autism. Includes discussions on the vaccine- autism connection theory and information you will want to know in order to make an informed decision prior to vaccinating your children.

Faith and Hope in the Healing and Recovery Process - Believe and Succeed!
Our Personal Testimony is shared to reveal the power of faith and hope on the way to recovery and healing throughout this journey called life. Learn how to press-on and persevere to your highest potential through your higher power.

Who’s S*** is it Anyway? : A Professional Parent’s Perspective of Dealing with the Systems
Parents will learn how to better understand professionals and navigate the systems. Providers will learn to understand how their behaviors, words and interactions affect the consumers and families. Personal experiences are shared throughout this unique presentation as Kathleen emerges and recovers from being a professional “behavior” nurse to a parent of a child with autism. Join her in her story of transformation to the “other side of the desk”.

Mental Illness in the Elderly
Participants will learn the prevalence of mental health issues in the elderly, signs and symptoms, unique challenges and needs of this population, and services available.

Documentation Issues
Learn how to use the nursing process to assist you with your best documentation. This session can be tailored to a variety of settings such as IEP’s, nursing and paraprofessional notes, program notes, home school documentation, goals and outcomes, nursing and treatment plans and more.

Domestic Violence – The Crime with Little Time
Learn the myths and facts about domestic violence. Personality traits and disorders of abusers and how they “work” the victim and the courts, antisocial and narcissistic disorders, signs and symptoms of abusive relationships, PTSD and depression, and the challenges victims face to protect themselves and their children which extend from the home to the workplace, school, court room, and extended family. Kathleen shares what she has learned through her professional experience as a psychiatric nurse having worked with offenders and victims as well as her personal story as a survivor of domestic violence.

The SonShine Healing Adventure:
Kathleen describes the details of this very successful and innovative home and community program which she developed specifically for her son. The SonShine Healing Adventure is a “modified” form of many interventions designed for a specific child and is based on principles of success and the nursing process: assessment, plan, implement, reassess and revise. Knowing that any single program will not be the key for success for children, the “parent-run” SonShine Healing Adventure incorporates a variety of “modified” methods and techniques used for assisting children with autism such as ABA, Verbal Behavior, SonRise Option, AAC/FC, TEACCH, FastForword-Earrobics-Computer Language Programs, Floor time, Sensory Integration, Brain Gym Activities, Total Communication Approaches such as sign language, gesturing and expressive speech and more. She has even come up with a few of her own techniques for teaching skills such as potty training, horseback riding, tying shoes and swimming which were greatly beneficial for her son.

Although this highly energetic program, which utilizes much movement for learning, is based in the home, there are many social and community opportunities available. Kathleen will share creative ideas that she has used to organize play groups so the child with autism will learn to model peers in structured and unstructured play environments with the “social-set up system” she designed. Documentation and outcome monitoring tools will be available as well as much more. The SonShine Healing Adventure session will teach you how to use, modify and apply all of the information from so many different training programs available into “practical” use to better serve the child.
Although designed for parents, this session will be beneficial for professionals and paraprofessionals as well. This training will provide you with the tools, confidence, ideas and momentum to start and implement a program for your child!

Disability and Abuse - It’s not just at home!
Although most studies and statistics available only specify or reference parental abuse, individuals with disabilities are many times abused by the very people we trust and pay to care for and educate them.  This session will expose this national tragedy by sharing true stories, real pictures and problems within the legal justice system when the victim is disabled and the perpetrator is a paid professional or paraprofessional.  The disabled are further abused by the systems and courts when they do not receive adequate representation, accommodations to testify, or fair and equal treatment in the justice system.

Many systems that care for our loved ones with disabilities are allowed to do their own investigations, which is a huge conflict of interest. The person with the disability and their family members are usually fighting major organizations that use your tax dollars to defend their actions of abuse.  These perpetrators and organizations may even continue to intimidate the abused and the families by threats of loss of services altogether, blaming the parent for the abuse, or justifying their actions claiming the abused was violent or out of control. Believe it or not, many professionals actually defend the use of aversion and restraints in the name of education or therapy and minimize the trauma and harm these tactics cause our loved ones.

This session will increase awareness of this ongoing tragedy, reveal the problems with the current systems (educational, medical, state, county, legal) and provide you with information and ideas on how to prevent abuse, assess for and document abuse, consents, releases, reporting and more.  This session will benefit parents, caregivers and individuals with disabilities as well as professionals and paraprofessionals working within the legal system, educational, medical or provider systems, or anyone that may be a mandated reporter of abuse.

Other Nursing Consulting Services:
(Individual or Group)

• Implement and Review Home and Community Based Programs for Children with Autism (Incorporating Social, Communication, Sensory, Motor, Emotional Needs- Environment / Community Resources, Modalities, Documentation, Diet, Ongoing Education and more)

• Professional and Support Staff Education and Training on Autism, Mental Wellness, Aging Issues, Psychiatric and Mental Health Issues and Above Topics

• Parent Training & Education on use of AAC and other Communication Techniques and Modalities, Implementing and Executing Home Programs, Documentation, and the DAN! Protocol Overview

• Project Coordination

• Community Awareness and Education

• Conference Coordination

Other individualized nursing consulting services are available.

Call Kathleen for more specifics on how she can assist you and your agency!

 

Caring is a moral ideal,
And a personal commitment,
To acting in such a way,
That dignity is preserved,

And humanity is restored,
And people are not reduced to an object."

 

J. Watson, Author of "Nursing: Human Science and Human Care"

 

 

All individual and group presentations are for supportive educational and informational purposes only and are not intended to be legal or medical professional advice, treatment or therapy. These presentations are not a replacement for medical/psychiatric treatment or therapy or professional legal advice.
 

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