Nurs663 Suicide Review Items for
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What is the most common reason for an emergency evaluation in an
adolescent? - answer suicidal behavior
A suicidal evaluation must determine? - answer circumstances;
lethality; persistence
The family of a suicidal patient must be assessed for? - answer
level of supportiveness; sensitiveness; monitoring competence; and
suitable environment
Suicidal assessment of the client must determine one important
thing, what is that? - answer suitability for outpatient care or need
for hospitalization
The psychiatric history, mental status exam, and assessment of the
family function help to establish what? - answer the general level
of suicidal risk for the client
The child or adolescent will likely need placement in a psychiatric
unit if there is a history of? - answer self injurious behavior
Psychiatric admission for inpatient care is indicated when the child
or adolescent - answer persists in suicidal ideation, shows signs of
psychosis and severe depression with hopelessness
, When can an admitted psychiatric client be released from an
inpatient stay when there is co-occurring substance or drug use? -
answer Only after being assessed in a sober state
True or False: Psychiatrists may be sued when one of their client
commits suicide--especially when that client was an inpatient. -
answer True.
Why are psychiatrist more liable when an inpatient client commits
suicide? - answer They are assumed to have greater control and
are capable of stronger preventative measures.
True or False: There is currently no way to predict who will or will
not commit suicide. - answer True (only level of risk can be
assessed)
What makes a mental health provider liable when a client commits
suicide? - answer Failure to perform a reasonable assessment
evaluating risk; failure to implement an appropriate plan--either or
both of these conditions.
How does the law see suicide? - answer It is preventable if it is
foreseeable.
What is foreseeability? - answer purposefully vague legal term that
has no comparable clinical counterpart, a common-sense rather
than a scientific construct.
True or False: Many suicides appear preventable (in hindsight) that
were clearly not foreseeable. - answer True.
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