Emergency Mental Health Assessing Suicide risk, AOD The Acute Response, Safely Dealing with 'Difficult' Behaviour - 05/09/2023 - 30/12/2025

Hospital emergency departments in rural areas play an important role in treating mental illness.

Therefore practitioners who work in these departments require considerable practical skills in urgent assessment, investigation and/or management of acute mental health problems.

This course provides 3 comprehensive modules.

Module 1: Risks Associated with Deliberate Self harm 

• Assessing suicidal risk in the Emergency Department
• Strangulation and Hanging

Module 2: Risks Associated with Drug Use

• Poppers and Whippets N2O Alkyl nitrates Abuse
• Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome
• Management of stimulants
• Adolescent Addiction
• Dealing with Drug Seeking

Module 3: Risks Associated with Violent behaviour  

• Occupational Violence Duty of Care
• Managing behaviours of concern in the Paediatric ED
• Dealing with difficult people
• The management of acute agitation in the emergency setting