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Implementing Standardized Suicide Assessment and Intervention at a Mental Health Clinic for People Experiencing Homelessness

This poster presentation will invite viewers to learn about a suicide risk assessment and management tool implemented as part of a quality improvement pilot project. Viewers will have the opportunity to analyze the utility of the tool in a psychosocially and medically complex client population.

Presenter:  Margaret Wilk, DNP, PMHNP-BC

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation. 

Session Length:  15 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome: 

Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will: 

• Evaluate the importance of using a standardized, comprehensive assessment and management tool as applied to suicide risk.

Keywords:  Standardized Suicide Assessment, Suicide, Homelessness, Quality Improvement Project, DNP Project, Poster Presentation

Price:  Free

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:

0.25 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: watch the video in its entirety, complete the evaluation, and submit the honor statement. Once you have completed all components, your nursing continuing professional development contact hours certificate will be generated online and available for immediate printing or downloading. Credit cannot be earned unless all components are completed. Partial credit will not be awarded.  

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Release Date:  May 1, 2025
Access to this presentation will end:  April 30, 2028

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