COE: Identifying Veterans at Risk of Suicide and Facilitating Referrals

December 13, 2023

The activity will assist the COE healthcare team in understanding the greater suicide risk that veterans have and also how to identify risk and make a referral.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Suicide statistics
  3. Introduction to Screening and Referral
    1. Exploring the treatment gap
    2. Suicide Risk Factors
    3. Suicidal Crisis Episode
    4. The impact of suicide
  4. Suicide risk screening and referral protocol 
    1. Benefits of screening and referral
    2. Benefits of evaluating satisfaction
  5. Screening and risk levels
    1. Paradigm shift
    2. What is screening?
    3. Risk levels
    4. The aim of screening
    5. Universal screening
  6. Screening for suicide risk
    1. Workflow
    2. Introducing screens
    3. Evidence-based instruments
      1. CRSS
      2. PHQ-9
      3. SFE-T
  7. Safety planning
    1. Workflow
    2. Worksheet
  8. Referral to treatment
    1. Direct linkage
    2. Barriers to care coordination
    3. Risk level and appropriate action
    4. Factors for consideration
    5. Barriers to treatment
    6. Introducing the need for referral
    7. Using POLAR*S
    8. Crisis referral processes
    9. Treatment impact
  9. Discussion

Questions

 

Target Audience

Nurse

Physician

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

  • Illustrate the need for suicide risk screening and referral with Veterans. 
  • Explain how screening assesses the risk of suicide. 
  • Demonstrate the clinical application of validated screening instruments. 
  • Discuss how to make an appropriate referral to treatment.

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
12/13/2023
Course expires: 
02/29/2024
Event starts: 
12/13/2023 - 12:00pm EST
Event ends: 
12/13/2023 - 1:30pm EST
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The activity will assist the COE healthcare team in understanding the greater suicide risk that veterans have and also how to identify risk and make a referral.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Suicide statistics
  3. Introduction to Screening and Referral
    1. Exploring the treatment gap
    2. Suicide Risk Factors
    3. Suicidal Crisis Episode
    4. The impact of suicide
  4. Suicide risk screening and referral protocol 
    1. Benefits of screening and referral
    2. Benefits of evaluating satisfaction
  5. Screening and risk levels
    1. Paradigm shift
    2. What is screening?
    3. Risk levels
    4. The aim of screening
    5. Universal screening
  6. Screening for suicide risk
    1. Workflow
    2. Introducing screens
    3. Evidence-based instruments
      1. CRSS
      2. PHQ-9
      3. SFE-T
  7. Safety planning
    1. Workflow
    2. Worksheet
  8. Referral to treatment
    1. Direct linkage
    2. Barriers to care coordination
    3. Risk level and appropriate action
    4. Factors for consideration
    5. Barriers to treatment
    6. Introducing the need for referral
    7. Using POLAR*S
    8. Crisis referral processes
    9. Treatment impact
  9. Discussion

Questions

Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Chris Chirdon

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh 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.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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