DESCRIPTION
By the end of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Define suicide and suicide attempts.
- Identify individual, relationship, and community risk factors for suicide and suicide attempts.
- Discuss the Center for Disease Control’s strategies for suicide prevention.
- Discuss The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals to prevent inpatient suicide and suicide attempts.
- Describe clinical interventions, strategies, and best practices to keep individuals at risk for suicide and suicide attempt safe.
- Discuss the legal and ethical aspects of working with individuals at risk for suicide or suicide attempts.
This course is approved for 3.0 CE/Contact Hours to the following professions:
- Nurses (RN, LVN, LPN) (all states)
- Social Workers (NASW)
Must pass final quiz with 80% or more; may re-take as often as needed. Course will be updated or discontinued on or before July 31, 2027.
Tags: 3.0 CE/Contact Hours, Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Clinical Interventions, Clinical Practices, Common Risk Factors, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Healthcare, NASW, Nurses, Recognizing and Assessing, RN, Social Worker, Suicide, Suicide Prevention