Observing non-verbal communicationis important andnurses continue to assess suicide risk through observations and conversations with the patients and implement safety measures if necessary. According to Benner,Tanner,andChesla‘expertnurses’areabletoread apatient/situation and respond instantaneously, claiming that there are intuitive links between noticing significant aspects and ways of responding to them. It has been suggested that intuition is involved in experienced mental health nurses' suicide assessments and that the intuition is linked to formal and tacit knowledge. Whereas Akerjordet and Severinssonbstated that intuition is a part of mental health nurses' emotional intelligence, Klein described it as a skill built up through repeated experiences in which one learns to recognize a set of cues. This may relate to semiotics and semiotic competence, in which one learns to interpret communicative signs. Further research should investigate the characteristics of suicidal cues communicated by patients and how a competence in recognizing such cues may bedeveloped. Emotional and experiencebased competence may be undervalued in current emphasis on evidence-based practice, and more focus on such knowledge in education and training of nurses could promote theirskills in caring forbsuicidal patients.