Aim: To analyse how suicide education is integrated into the curricula of nursing degree programmes in Spain.

Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted.

Methods: A review of 123 nursing curricula and a questionnaire. Data were analysed using IBM SPSS, applying a non-parametric statistical test to assess the presence and depth of suicide education in nursing programmes.

Results: Suicide was typically included in a single module, usually titled Mental Health Nursing, taught in the third year (69%). Overall, 76.42% of programmes included suicide content, dedicating an average of 3.59 h. Teaching was mainly expository, while 27.4% applied active methodologies and 23.3% combined both. Programmes using active methods tended to allocate more hours.

Conclusion: The study highlights the need to enhance suicide prevention training in nursing education, both in content and methodology, to better equip future nurses for this critical healthcare challenge.