consists of : (a) part A: theoretical background recommendations, (b) part B: data collection and interventions, (c) basic suicidality assessment (SA), and (d) advanced SA.
parts A and B provide background information and instructions for usage.
The basic SA and advanced SA are working documents that nurses can use in clinical practice.
in order to meet current standards, the guideline was set up to comply with the AGREE instrument for the appraisal of guidelines (The AGREE collaboration, 2001).