QPR for Primary Care Providers
One time cost of $149 (Volume Pricing Available)
One in five of those die by suicide saw their PCP within 24 hours of their death. "Last medical contact" before suicide is even higher among the elderly, with almost 50% of suicide victims having seen their doctor within the past week. These contacts are “missed opportunities” to prevent death by suicide.
Program Purpose
Modularized in a rich mix of text, video, voice-over PowerPoint™ lectures, interactive practice sessions, and other state-of-the-art e-learning technologies, the QPR for PCPs is a skill-based training program intended to improve your clinical skills by learning to employ current best practices when working with patients at risk of suicide.
Program Description
The QPR for PCPs (Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners and Nurses) is intended to prevent suicide not just among patients, but among colleagues, co-workers, and family members.
This course teaches basic QPR as well as its application as a verbal screening tool that can be used in general medicine, either inpatient or outpatient. A skills-based training, it includes foundational information about suicide as a public health problem, an orientation to the link between mental illness and suicide, and evidence-based treatments for patients at risk of suicidal behaviors.
This course also teaches means reduction, safety planning and continuity of care. Non-suicidal self-injury, short-term predictors of suicide attempts, and a guided brief assessment interview protocol are included. A community strategy for addressing risk and protective factors in preventing veteran suicide is included. A bonus module covering best practices for preventing late-life suicide is available.
Program Goals
Upon completion, participants should be able to:
- Describe suicide as a major public health problem
- Explain the common myths and facts surrounding suicide
- Identify unique verbal, behavioral, and situational suicide warning signs
- Recognize at least three suicide warning signs
- Recognize at least three risk factors for suicide
- Recognize at least three protective factors against suicide
- Demonstrate increased knowledge, skills, self-efficacy and intent to act to intervene with patients at risk of suicide
- Explain how to engage and assist a suicidal colleague or co-worker
- Conduct a brief assessment of suicide risk interview
- Engage supportive third parties in the assessment and care
- Describe means reduction and how to reduce access to lethal means.
- Describe a safety plan and know how to develop one with a patient
- Understand and employ a continuity of care plan
- Outline the elements of least one theory of suicidal behavior
- Define and describe self-injurious behaviors and non-suicidal self-injury
- Demonstrate increased knowledge about suicide and its causes
- Describe clinical groups at high risk for suicide
- Describe the relationship of mental illness and substance abuse to suicide
- Demonstrate basic intervention, assessment, and risk management skills in simulated patient interactions
Bottom Line
Our goal with this training is to provide an educational bridge between research and practice by teaching emerging best practice skills in detection, assessment, management of suicide-at-risk patients.