Suicide Prevention Certificate Program
Coming Spring 2024: A New Online, On-Demand Certificate Course
This interactive training will increase your confidence and competence in the nursing skills of suicide assessment, management and prevention. Get evidence-based nursing knowledge and best practices from this content developed to improve the knowledge, attitudes, skills and critical thinking of psychiatric-mental health nurses caring for persons at risk for suicide.
Target Audience: Generalist nurses who care for persons with mental health disorders in an inpatient setting.
Nursing Continuing Professional Development
Participants who complete all of the training requirements will be able to earn contact hours.
Program Outcome:
Upon completion of this program, learners will feel more confident and competent working with patients at risk for suicide.
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