The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention offers resources for parents and caregivers, including videos, podcasts and fact sheets. Content includes prevention strategies, warning signs, how to talk to youth, and how to access help.
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Webinars
From the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and SMI Adviser, this webinar provides an overview of the Zero Suicide Framework and its core elements.
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Tools
The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board has created a valuable toolkit containing resources for understanding the historical context and impacts of U.S Indian boarding schools. Delving into past, present, and future traumas that have resulted from U.S.
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Jasperson, R. A., Sullivan, E., & Goldstein, E. V. (2023). Employee attitudes toward suicide prevention and Counseling on Access to Lethal Means: Initial findings from an academic medical center implementing the Zero Suicide framework. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1268300
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Background: Zero Suicide has been widely promoted as a comprehensive suicide prevention approach in healthcare systems, yet less is known about the barriers to implementing this approach in the emergency department.
Allison, M.K., Waliski, A., Haynes, T.F., Marshall, S.A. (2022) Formative evaluation of Zero Suicide in the emergency department: Identifying strategies to overcome implementation barriers. Evaluation and Program Planning, 92, 102050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102050.
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Elbanna, M. F., Thomas, M. R., Patel, P. R., & McHenry, M. S. (2023). Cultivating Cultural Humility to Address the Healthcare Burnout Epidemic–Why It Matters. Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health, 12, 27536130231162350. https://doi.org/10.1177/27536130231162350
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"All the available evidence points to the fact that healthcare is under considerable stress, and while change is urgently needed there is no quick fix; systemic and sustained changes in organizational cultures within healthcare are required.
Montgomery, A., & Lainidi, O. (2023). Creating healthy workplaces in healthcare: Are we delaying progress by focusing on what we can do rather than what we should do? Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1105009
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Physicians are an at-risk profession of suicide, with women particularly at risk. The rate of suicide in physicians decreased over time, especially in Europe.
Dutheil, F., Aubert, C., Pereira, B., Dambrun, M., Moustafa, F., Mermillod, M., Baker, J. S., Trousselard, M., Lesage, F.-X., & Navel, V. (2019). Suicide among physicians and health-care workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLOS ONE, 14(12), e0226361. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226361
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This letter to the editor of the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health provides an overview of effective strategies and interventions to address healthcare worker burnout.
Razai, M. E., Kooner, P., & Majeed, A. (n.d.). Strategies and Interventions to Improve Healthcare Professionals’ Well-Being and Reduce Burnout. https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319231178641
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Purpose: To advocate for strategic actions by U.S. nursing leadership that denote the presence, customs, and implications of racism that has been institutionalized within the structures of U.S. nursing leadership and the profession.
Nardi, D., Waite, R., Nowak, M., Hatcher, B., Hines-Martin, C. & Stacciarini, J.M.R. (2020). Achieving health equity through eradicating structural racism in the United States: A call to action for nursing leadership. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 52(6), 595-721. https://doi-org.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/10.1111/jnu.12602