To ASQ or Not to ASQ: A Suicide Risk Screening Improvement Project

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Suicide is the second leading cause of death in children between the ages of 10-19 years. Most people who die by suicide have visited a healthcare provider within the prior year. Inpatient healthcare providers, particularly clinical nurse leaders (CNLs), are in a strategic position to assess adolescents for suicide risk regardless of their admitting diagnosis. “To ASQ or Not to ASQ” is an evidence-based project aimed at improving compliance with the Ask Suicide Screening Questions (ASQ) in an eight-bed medical-surgical adult and pediatric overflow intensive care unit (MSICU) in a large tertiary 629-bed academic medical center. Methods included convenience sampling of twenty-nine staff members to aid in identifying gaps and inform activities aimed at achieving at least 90% compliance with the ASQ suicide-screening tool. Gaps identified included lack of staff knowledge in regard to policy, procedure, and documentation. Post intervention survey demonstrated a significant knowledge improvement from the baseline of 50% to 100%. The model for continuous improvement: plan, do, study, act will be used to provide ongoing monitoring and reporting of screening compliance to key stakeholders in order to close the gap between knowledge and practice in this clinical environment.</p> <p> <em>Keywords: </em>suicide risk, adolescent, screening tool</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Mumper, Gina

Contributors dc:contributor

• Carla Martin

• suicide risk
• adolescent
• screening tool
• Critical Care Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/667

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1691