The only international data-based publication on the
nurse’s role in assessing suicide risk to compare our
guideline with is the Nurses’ Global Assessment of
Suicide Risk (Cutcliffe & Barker, 2004), which is a scale
that enables quick assessment of suicide risk. Like our
guideline, it is evidence based, but it does not discuss
how information about the patient is best obtained, nor
does it provide interventions that can be performed.