Japanese Journal of General Hospital Psychiatry
Online ISSN : 2186-4810
Print ISSN : 0915-5872
ISSN-L : 0915-5872
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Making “Attempt Suicide Assessment Sheet”: Review of some nursing approach changes
Yaeko Yanagisawa
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2011 Volume 23 Issue 3 Pages 260-267

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Emergency medical care centers receive many suicide attempt patients. Nurses have not been able to appropriately assess patients since they do not know how they should treat patients with suicidal ideation, and thus they have not been able to accurately ask about suicidal ideation. However, we learned from past cases that it is important to accurately confirm their suicidal ideation for medical treatment. Therefore, we established the “Assessment sheet for suicide attempt patients” and tried to confirm safe conditions for them by confirming their suicidal ideations and their reattempt risk. However, the survey was usually conducted at the time of admission, and the safety confirmation was not continuously conducted during the admission. After the cases of suicide reattempt, we enhanced the security and removed dangerous items from patients. Thus, we positively responded to the cases, while limitations and inexperienced problems occasionally appeared. The critical thing is that all the staff in the hospital cooperated with each other in order to not repeat the same mistakes as was done with past cases.
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