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Professional Education

Nursing Grand Rounds

(Reg Closed) Nursing’s Role in Developing Safety Plans for Suicidal Patients

Pine RestEventsProfessional Education(Reg Closed) Nursing’s Role in Developing Safety Plans for Suicidal Patients
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  • Cost
    Free
  • Credits Available
    1 Contact Hour for Nursing, 1 CME Credit for Social Work

Presentation

This nursing grand rounds will provide education on the important role nurses can have in safety planning with patients at-risk of suicide, including directly partnering with patients to complete their safety plan and working within a treatment team to improve the quality of patients’ safety plans. This presentation will explain the differences between contracting for safety and safety planning and review the six key components of the evidence-based Stanley-Brown Safety Plan. Dr. Edwards will briefly review research supporting collaborative safety planning for suicide prevention, including factors that impact the effectiveness of safety plans in preventing suicide. An emphasis will be placed on clinical skills nurses can use to help patients develop or improve their safety plans.

Objectives

Participant(s) will be able to:

  1. Identify the 6 components of the Stanley-Brown safety plan.                                                                                                      
  2. Identify the differences between contracting for safety and safety planning.
  3. Identify 3 ways nursing can support safety plan development and use when working with patients at-risk for suicide.             

Presenter

  • Edwards Evonne e1552309010403

    Evonne Edwards PhD

    Evonne Edwards, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with over 14 years’ experience in suicide prevention. She serves as Pine Rest’s Zero Suicide Clinical Director, project director for a SAMHSA-funded Zero Suicide expansion and implementation grant, and Pine Rests’ Clinical Champion for MIMind, a statewide collaborative quality initiative to improve implementation of Zero Suicide within physician organizations. Dr. Edwards has completed extensive training in evidence-based suicide risk assessment and interventions, including Assessment and Management of Suicide Risk (AMSR) for inpatient and outpatient clinicians, American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) competency-based suicide prevention, Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicide (CAMS), and Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP). She regularly provides clinical trainings on safety planning, suicide risk assessment, lethal means reduction, and Zero Suicide implementation. Her research and publications address topics such as suicide risk and protective factors and the impact of LGBTQ+ identity, religion/spirituality, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Location Details

This is a virtual event for the Postma Center at Pine Rest .
This event has already occurred.

Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation

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