Introduction: Suicide is an act by which someone intentionally causes their death. Due to their many contacts with patients, nursing providers are the most important in suicide prevention at all levels of healthcare. They must be trained to provide appropriate medical care to patients who are at risk of suicide. Purpose: We wanted to define the knowledge of nursing providers about suicide and suicidal behaviour and their prevention. The aim of the diploma work is to determine the competence of nursing providers to identify suicidal behaviour and prevent suicide by reviewing the relevant literature. Methods: A descriptive approach of work with literature review in COBIB, CINAHL and PubMed databases was used. The literature search took place from May to August 2021. The inclusion criteria we considered were free availability of the text for members of the University of Ljubljana, article age up to 15 years, peer-reviewed and original peer-reviewed articles in English, keyword relevance and content the connection between the title and the abstract with the purpose and goals of the diploma work. Results: The analysis includes 18 articles from two different areas: the competence of nursing providers to detect suicidal behaviour in relation to the workplace (urgent patients, oncology patients) and the empowerment of nursing providers to prevent suicidal behaviour. Nursing providers feel insufficiently competent to work with suicidal patients, have insufficient knowledge and want additional education. Discussion and conclusion: Suicidal behaviour occurs in all areas of nursing care, so it makes sense to take preventive action, especially at the primary level of health care (family medicine clinics, child, and youth health care) and among patients with risk factors for suicidal behaviour, palliative care, psychiatry, homelessness). We extracted the basic strategies for empowering nursing care providers to prevent suicidal behaviour: knowledge, educational programs, and the use of screening tools.
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