Patients on the spectrum Training

• One of the more significant environments that non-behaviorally trained nurses and clinicians find themselves in is the admission of patients on the autism spectrum. During my years of leading the Threshold residential program, we had residents who were admitted to the hospital for several days. Nurses from the units would contact our agency to see if we could staff the facility while our resident was in-house. The difficult issue was always funding. 

• Once the patient was admitted to their facility, all funds to the group home were cut off. Out of this necessity, we created a nurse behavior training program to teach BBA (Basic Behavior Analysis) how to implement care plans and provide reinforcers for programs, how to recognize and de-escalate self-injurious behaviors as they begin to escalate, and the effects of escalation versus de-escalation on the environment. Threshold is happy to offer workshops in your facility for groups of 12 to 24 nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel. 

This course is also offered online. For more information, please call +1 321-439-5949 or email us.