(Maintenance of Certification Program) Suicide: Facing the Difficult Topic Together – Empowering Nurses, Instilling Hope in Patients – MOC Section 1

Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:

1. Evaluate the level of risk for suicide and determine how best to intervene.
2. List most appropriate patients for suicide intervention.
3. Identify the prevalence of, and which groups are at high-risk for suicide in Canada.
4. Establish a trusting therapeutic client relationship to enable discussion around suicide.
5. Identify some of the tools and resources available to support the identification of the risk of suicide among your patients, and how to better offer that follow-up support.
6. Discuss the responsibility of a nurse when addressing the concern of risk for suicide and how to have conversations about suicide with patients.