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(CNA Accreditation Program) Suicide: Facing the Difficult Topic Together – Empowering Nurses, Instilling Hope in Patients – Canadian Nurses Association
Nurses, including nurse practitioners, play a pivotal role in suicide prevention, as a crucial member of the healthcare team. As team members, you and your clinic’s family physician are best positioned to identify those who may be at risk for suicide and able to provide or link those at risk with the care they so desperately need.
It is important for all members of the healthcare team to have a firm understanding of suicide prevention, assessment, intervention, safety planning, local resources, and how to make effective referrals. Building upon this, all members of the team need to be alert and attentive to possible risk factors, warnings signs, and reports of physiological symptoms from their patients even in the absence of any reported suicidal behaviours.
DURATION
2 hrs
PROFESSION
# OF CREDITS
0
ACCREDITATION
Unaccredited
EXPIRY DATE
2020-03-13
Nurses, including nurse practitioners, play a pivotal role in suicide prevention, as a crucial member of the healthcare team. As team members, you and your clinic’s family physician are best positioned to identify those who may be at risk for suicide and able to provide or link those at risk with the care they so desperately need.
It is important for all members of the healthcare team to have a firm understanding of suicide prevention, assessment, intervention, safety planning, local resources, and how to make effective referrals. Building upon this, all members of the team need to be alert and attentive to possible risk factors, warnings signs, and reports of physiological symptoms from their patients even in the absence of any reported suicidal behaviours.
Faculty
Alex Drossos (MD, MBA, MEd, BESc), Ardelle Komaryk (FNP), Florence Budden (RN), Lisa Crawley (RN)
Learning objectives
After completing this education, nurses will be better able to:
- Describe the challenges facing older adults with regard to influenza vaccines, including immunosenescence and antigenic drift and how these impact on the spread of influenza in the community
- Identify barriers to vaccination uptake by older Australians, and implement approaches to overcome these patient barriers to influenza vaccination
- Identify patient groups which would benefit from enhanced trivalent vaccines
- Counsel patients on the efficacy and safety of the MF59 adjuvant in the enhanced trivalent flu vaccine listed on the National Immunisation Program in 2019, and contrast it with other influenza vaccines available in Australia