Recognizing and Managing Suicidal Risk

This course provides interactive learning experience to explore risk factors for suicide in adults and adolescents, managing suicidal risk, and available suicide prevention resources. Participants have multiple opportunities to engage in learning by viewing a TED Talk-style presentation, working with the clinical cases and receiving immediate feedback, contributing to a discussion forum, and studying provided resources.

ELEMENTS OF COMPETENCE

This activity changes learner competence and focuses on these elements:

  • American Board of Medical Specialties: Patient care and procedural skills
  • National Academy of Medicine: Provide patient/person-centered care
  • Interprofessional Education Collaborative: Roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams and teamwork. 

PRACTICE GAPS AND NEEDS

Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States. Each year, more than 700 Wisconsin residents die by suicide. Healthcare professionals should be better prepared to assess suicidal risk and provide appropriate suicide prevention and referral.

Intended Audience

This activity was planned by and for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, behavioral health professionals, and others who care for patients with mental health illnesses and are interested in assessing the risk factors for suicide and improving suicide prevention.

Learning Objectives

As a result of participation in this course, members of the healthcare team will improve their collective ability to:

  1. Use best practices in recognizing and managing suicidal risk.
  2. Assess the risk factors for suicide in an adults and adolescents.
  3. Discuss the relationship between substance abuse or self-injurious behavior and suicide.
  4. Identify suicide prevention resources and referrals that can be provided to patients.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 MOC: ABIM Medical Knowledge Points (Part II)
  • 1.00 MOC: ABP Lifelong Learning Points (Part II)
  • 1.00 ACPE Contact Hours - Pharmacist
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC Contact Hours
  • 1.00 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
    • 1.00 Approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Registration opens: 
03/30/2022
Course expires: 
03/29/2024
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) to identify, mitigate and disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education (CE). In addition, speakers, presenters and authors must disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation.

For this accredited continuing education activity all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated and detailed disclosures are listed below.

*Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical services directly to patients to be ineligible companies. 

Planning Committee Members

   Financial Relationship DisclosureDiscussion of
Unlabeled/Unapproved Uses of
Drugs/Devices in Presentation?

Rachel Edwards

RNBC, MSN

Nurse Manager, Psychiatry, UW Health / University of Wisconsin Hospitals and ClinicsNo relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo

Casey Gallimore

PharmD, RPH

Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-MadisonNo relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo

David Mays

MD

Activity Chair; Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Professional Development and Applied Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo

Karen Milner

MDChief Medical Officer, Journey Mental Health CenterNo relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to discloseNo
Discloser List CME Internal Report

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP 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.

Credit Designation Statements

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)

A maximum of 1 hour of knowledge-based CE credit can be earned by successfully completing this enduring material. Pharmacists should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the material. CE credit information, based on verification of live attendance, will be provided to NABP within 60 days after the activity completion.

2022 Universal Activity Number (UAN): xxx

American Medical Association (AMA)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 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)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hours. 

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for 0.1 CEUs or 1.0 hour.

Maintenance of Certification

American Board of Internal Medicine

Successful completion of this CME material, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

American Board of Pediatrics

Successful completion of this CME material, which included participation in the activity, with individual assessment of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 MOC: ABIM Medical Knowledge Points (Part II)
  • 1.00 MOC: ABP Lifelong Learning Points (Part II)
  • 1.00 ACPE Contact Hours - Pharmacist
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 ANCC Contact Hours
  • 1.00 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
    • 1.00 Approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

Cost:
$0.00
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ACCESSIBILITY

The University of Wisconsin provides equal opportunities in employment and programming, including Title IX requirements. The University of Wisconsin fully complies with the legal requirements of the ADA and the rules and regulations thereof. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accommodations, please notify us at help@icep.wisc.edu

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