Preventing Suicide In The Hospital Setting

Course overview

This preventing suicide continuing education program will provide nurses with information about The Joint Commission's Sentinel Event Alert Issue 46, which focuses on preventing suicide in the general medical hospital, including EDs and medical/surgical units. Readers will be able to: identify five suicide risk factors that indicate a patient is at increased risk for self-harm, list three suicide-screening questions that help clinicians determine if a patient is at high risk for suicide, and discuss four measures to maintain safety for suicidal patients.