Connect Suicide Prevention for Healthcare Professionals - Modules 1 - 3

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 8:30 AM - Sunday, April 23, 2028, 12:30 PM

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (4.00 hours), ANCC Nursing Contact Hours (4.00 hours), CME-Designated Participation Credit (4.00 hours)

The Connect Suicide Prevention for Healthcare Professionals training is a 4-hour interactive online course. It follows national best practices for suicide prevention based on recommendations from the Joint Commission, Zero Suicide, and the Action Alliance Standard of Care.

Presenter

Elaine de Mello, LICSW, MSW
Suicide Prevention and Postvention Advisor
NAMI New Hampshire

1. Identify at least three interventions for patients at risk for suicide.
2. Describe components of a comprehensive safety plan for those at risk for suicide.
3. Utilize effective techniques in counseling patients and those close to them around lethal means safety.

Registration site: https://learn.naminh.org/course/connect-health-care.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Dartmouth Health and NAMI New Hampshire. Dartmouth Health 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.

American Medical Association (AMA)
Dartmouth Health designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
Dartmouth Health designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 4.00 ANCC contact hours.

All other learners may claim CME-designated participation credit. Consult your professional licensing board regarding the applicability and acceptance of CME-designated participation credit for programs certified for credit by organizations accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Education.

Registration/Requirements for Successful Completion
You may claim credit for successful completion of this online course. In order to claim credit, you must follow these steps:

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2. Register for the activity and pay registration fee of $20 by credit card only.

3. Click the Content/Tests tab.

4. Complete the Post-Test (attestation).

5. Click the Complete Evaluation button, or click My Account in the menu bar; then click Evaluations.

6. Complete and Submit the Evaluation.

Bibliographic Material

• Bryan, C. J. (2024, January 8). Examining the effectiveness of suicide risk screening in primary care. Improvement Insights, The Joint Commission. https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/news-and-multimedia/blogs/improvement-insights/2024/01/examining-the-effectiveness-of-suicide-risk-screening-in-primary-care/

   

• Labouliere, C. D., Vasan, P., Kramer, A., Brown, G., Green, K., Rahman, M., Kammer, J., Finnerty, M., & Stanley, B. (2018). "Zero Suicide" – A model for reducing suicide in United States behavioral healthcare. Suicidologi, 23(1), 22-30. https://doi.org/10.16904/suicidologi.2018.23.1.22

   

• National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention: Transforming Health Systems Initiative Work Group. (2018). Recommended standard care for people with suicide risk: Making health care suicide safe. Education Development Center, Inc.

   

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (2022, September). Evidence review for risk assessment and formulation: Self-harm: Assessment, management and preventing recurrence. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng225/resources

   

• Scrandis, D. A., & Arnow, D. (2023). Suicide among men: Risk assessment and mitigation in primary care. Nurse Practitioner, 48(8), 13–19. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NPR.0000000000000080

   

• Stanley, B., Brown, G. K., Brenner, L. A., Galfalvy, H. C., Currier, G. W., Knox, L. K., Chaudhury, S. R., Bush, A. L., & Green, K. L. (2018). Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention with Follow-up vs. Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department. JAMA Psychiatry, 75(9), 894-900. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.1776

   

• Siry, B. J., Polzer, E., Omeragic, F., Knoepke, C. E., Matlock, D. D., & Betz, M. E. (2021). Lethal means counseling for suicide prevention: Views of emergency department clinicians. General Hospital Psychiatry, 71, 95-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2021.04.011

   

• The Joint Commission. (2018, November 27). R3 Report Issue 18: National Patient Safety Goal for Suicide Prevention. https://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/r3_18_suicide_prevention_hap_bhc_cah_11_4_19_final1.pdf

Provider Contact Information
Provider contact information for questions regarding accreditation of the activity:

Center for Learning and Professional Development
ACE Office
Dartmouth Health
[email protected]

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Dartmouth Health adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.  Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including planners, faculty, authors, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies^.  All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

^Ineligible Company is any entity whose primary business purpose is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.