Potential for suicide risk can be a safety concern for patients in all health care settings. Inadequate training of nurses in suicide assessment and prevention is a serious patient safety concern. A non-randomized pre-/postintervention research design was used to measure the effects of education on non-psychiatric nurses' perceived self-efficacy in assessment and inquiry about suicide risk and in implementing suicide prevention strategies. The intervention was an educational module about suicide prevention and care delivered to non-psychiatric nurses employed on a neuro-trauma unit in an acute care urban hospital setting. Statistically significant increases occurred in the non-psychiatric nurse's self-efficacy in caring for the patient at risk for suicide. The outcomes of this project offer an important contribution to future research in the area of education about suicide prevention and care for non-psychiatric nurses, promoting safer outcomes for patients. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 56(6), 43-51.].

COVID-19 leveled assaults on nurses that far exceeded almost anything faced or addressed before in health care. Around the world, nurses experienced trauma and burnout (Chen et al., 2021) as they did their work in the context of pandemic-driven needs. Many times, nurses felt that they were in a war zone; this time, the enemy was a deadly and mysterious virus.Even as the worst assaults of the pandemic waned, nurses faced a "new normal" (Sampaio et al., 2021) that incorporated constant change and unpredictability. Staff and resource shortages demanded rapid and decisive action often in the absence of assured outcomes. Exposure to often-immeasurable risk characterized nurses' everyday experiences (Galanis et al., 2021).The need for competent leadership in response to COVID-19's assaults on nurses was clear. Nurse leaders' commitment in the time of COVID-19 extended far beyond that required in less tumultuous circumstances. Addressing and supporting nurses' personal needs for being heard, protected, prepared, supported, and genuinely cared about (Shanafelt et al., 2020) became central to nurse leaders' daily work. Their charge was "to nurse" the entire system and all its parts. When they did, their leadership was not only visible (Rosser et al., 2020) but deeply respected. They were beloved in the midst of COVID-19's inherent calamity.I write today to share a reflection I had several years ago during a conversation with my dad, a veteran of World War II. Growing up, my dad always lauded the praises of General Eisenhower, a general he served under and knew personally. He would say, "we loved him"; "he [General Eisenhower] was the best general to serve under; there wasn't one soldier that I knew who, upon his direction, [In loving memory of Master Staff Sergeant Steven Belonick, Army Air Corps World War II, died in 2019, at the age of 103].

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