Statistics
What are ages 15 to 34?
These are examples of standardized screening tools.
What is the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 or the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale?
This is a number that can be called when a person is facing a personal crisis related to suicidal ideation.
What is 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline?
This is a brief supportive phone call or text to the patient after discharge.
What is arranging caring contacts?
This is considered the national patient safety goal for suicide.
What is identifying patients who are at risk for suicide?
This is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States.
What is suicide?
The RN should routinely screen patients with these two assessment tools.
What are validated tools such as PHQ-9 and C-SSRS?
Three examples of mental health specialists available for patients.
What are psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors?
This consists of charting screening results, the completed safety plan, means-reduction actions, and follow-up plans.
What is documenting all findings and interventions?
Suicide crises and prevention should be treated in comparison to this.
What is heart-attack prevention?
This percentage of individuals who have died by suicide had a healthcare visit in the prior year.
What is 80%?
This is a 21-item scale used to measure the intensity of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
What is the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation (BSSI)?
Utilizing things like distraction, grounding, emotional response, challenging thoughts, having self-love, and accessing one's higher self to combat mental struggles.
What are healthy coping skills?
The nurse does this to secure or remove unused medications and sharps, and involves family members to ensure safety.
What are lethal means reduction steps?
This minimizes the risk of harm to patients through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
What is the main QSEN Safety Competency?
Indicators may include thoughts of suicide, isolation, anger/irritability, and risky/careless behavior.
What are the warning signs of suicidal ideation?
This is a brief, 4-question screening tool that takes about 20 seconds to administer. A positive screen prompts a fifth question about current suicidal thoughts.
What is the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ)?
This is a plan to combat suicidal ideation.
What is a suicide safety plan?
The nurse does this to identify personal warning signs, coping strategies, social supports, and crisis contacts.
What is developing a collaborative safety plan during the same visit?
This embeds suicide prevention into every care system.
What is The Zero Suicide Framework?
The most common method of suicide.
What are firearms?
The minimal frequency in which suicide assessment tools should be reviewed and updated with patients.
What is annually?
This is the best place to go for seeking immediate crisis help.
What is the nearest emergency room?
The nurse uses standardized tools to conduct this.
What is a suicide risk screening?
The Zero Suicide Framework makeup consists of these four steps.
What are Screening → Assessment → Safety Plan → Follow-up Contacts?