Hospital presentations: suicidal ideation and self harm
Provided by BMJ Learning
About the course
After completing this module, you should have the knowledge and confidence to:
- Understand what suicidal ideation is and its significance and know when and how to ask patients about suicidal thoughts
- Understand what self harm is, its causes and its relation to suicide and be confident to take a competent history following self harm
- Be able to identify symptoms of serious mental illness including depression and psychosis
- Manage the most common type of overdose (paracetamol)
- Assess a patient’s mental capacity and know how to approach a patient refusing essential treatment
- Understand the basic principles of the UK Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act
- Have an awareness of the long term management of patients following self harm and/or suicidal ideation.