Emergency departments (EDs) play an important role in suicide prevention. This online course teaches healthcare professionals who work in an ED how to conduct screening, assessment, and brief interventions, such as safety planning and lethal means counselling. It also addresses patient-cantered care for patients with suicide risk, patient safety during the ED visit, and incorporating suicide prevention into discharge planning. This programme is provided to employees by [ insert organisation], an external training organisation on their website.

Audience

This course is applicable to Emergency Department clinicians providing suicide risk assessment and safety management of people presenting to ED with thoughts, intent or attempt to suicide.

Note: This course and resources are provided to MDHB employees by Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), an external training organisation and are not managed by MDHB Ko Awatea Learn and will not be recorded in Yourself.