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Goals and Learning Outcomes

As the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., suicide is a public health concern. Older adults account for 20% of all suicides, yet the risk is often overlooked in this population. Healthcare providers frequently fail to identify signs of suicide risk and underlying depression, which prevents them from making mental health diagnoses and referrals.


In this course, you will learn how to screen older adults for depression and suicide. This course covers best practices in suicide risk assessment and safety plans. By knowing how to inquire about suicide and identify risk and protective factors, you will be able to determine and document your patient’s risk level. The patient can then receive the appropriate level of care and referrals.

The goal of this course is to provide skills to nursing and social work professionals in the acute care setting to identify, assess, and respond to suicide risk in older adults.


After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe the process of evaluation and treatment of late-life suicide
  • Recognize three important clinical clues to late-life suicide
  • Identify the risk factors for late-life suicide
  • Describe the evaluation and prevention of late-life suicide.
  • Recognize three important warning signs for suicide risk in older adulthood
  • Identify five risk factors for suicide in older adulthood
  • Describe evaluation and prevention methods of suicide in older adulthood

Course Termination Date: Not yet determined

Content Expiration Date: 12/31/25

Course Originally Released On: 09/01/22

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Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

 

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Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, Kansas State Board of Nursing, Kentucky Board of Nursing, Michigan Board of Nursing, Mississippi Board of Nursing, New Hampshire Board of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Registered Nurses

 

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.