Suicide Prevention Certificate Program
What to ask, who to tell, how to document, and what to do next.
What is the APNA Suicide Prevention Certificate Program?
This foundational on-demand course provides psychiatric-mental health nurses with essential strategies to assess, manage, and support individuals at risk, thereby building confidence and competence in clinical practice. Designed to strengthen clinical judgment and elevate your impact in care, the program focuses on practical, real-world strategies that enhance your ability to support individuals at risk for suicide.
Who should participate?
Nurses who encounter individuals at risk for suicide:
- Psychiatric-mental Health RNs
- Psychiatric-mental Health Nurse Practitioners
- Psychiatric-mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialists
What Nurses Are Saying
“This was immensely helpful and contained relevant questions and scenarios to improve our assessment skills.”
“This was an incredibly good training. It was helpful to learn the new language for discussing suicide and suicidal ideations.”
Ready to increase your clinical confidence in core suicide prevention skills?
Get ready to learn the nuts and bolts of how to assess and intervene, apply concrete strategies to your practice immediately, and earn ANCC NCPD contact hours!
Program Outline
Module 1: Phenomenology of Suicide
Learning Objective:
- Discuss the phenomenology of suicide.
Module 2: Suicide Assessment and Risk Formulation
Learning Objectives:
- Perform a focused risk assessment.
- Document patient level of risk for suicide.
- Perform a suicide risk assessment.
Module 3: Plan of Care
Learning Objective:
- Develop a collaborative safety plan.
Module 4: Care and Control of Environment
Learning Objective:
- Discuss environmental safety and risk mitigation
Nursing Continuing Professional Development
Participants who complete all of the training requirements will be able to earn 5 contact hours.
Learning Outcome: Upon completion of this program, learners will feel more confident and competent working with patients at risk for suicide.
Registrants have 90 days from date of registration to complete the full certificate program and earn nursing continuing professional development contact hours.
The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
