The document discusses suicide awareness and prevention, including definitions of key terms, risk and protective factors, communicating with at-risk patients, and ensuring immediate safety. It defines suicidal behaviors, ideation, gestures, and attempts. Risk factors include mental health issues, substance abuse, hopelessness, and prior suicide behaviors. Protective factors are social support, problem-solving skills, and help-seeking attitudes. When assessing risk, staff should directly and clearly ask about suicidal thoughts and plans. For patient safety, observation levels and contraband policies should be implemented and documented handoff communication is important.