Suicide

Question 1

What type of individual are at the greatest risk for suicide?

Answer 1

Single men.

Question 2

What can suicide risks be associated with?

Answer 2

Family history- especially in a same sex parent.

Question 3

What does the AIM program stand for?

Answer 3

Access- Illumination– Methodology

Question 4

What does Access mean in the AIM program?

Answer 4

Improve access to services and programs, and reduce access to lethal means.

Question 5

What does Illumination mean in the AIM program?

Answer 5

Broaden public awareness to make it preventable.

Question 6

What does Methodology mean in the AIM program?

Answer 6

Advance the science of prevention through research.

Question 7

What is the genetic theory of suicide?

Answer 7

There is a higher rate of suicide in identical twins- look at serotonin levels.

Question 8

What is the biological theory of suicide?

Answer 8

Low levels of serotonin cause the behaviors

Question 9

What are the 5 psychological theories of suicide?

Answer 9

1) Aggression towards others is turned on themselves
2) Survival instinct and death wish clash
3) Hopelessness and Helplessness
4) Response to guilt
5) Response to developmental stressors

Question 10

What is the sociocultural theories for suicide?

Answer 10

A response to shame and humiliation when there is no other apparent way.

Question 11

What is altruistic suicide?

Answer 11

Giving your life for what you believe is a noble cause

Question 12

What is fatalistic suicide?

Answer 12

Person is deprived of freedom and hopeless about regaining it

Question 13

What is anomic suicide?

Answer 13

Person feels like an outcast and is deprived of social interaction and group support.

Question 14

What are the major reasons for suicide? (4)

Answer 14

Anger, Depression, Hopelessness, Loss of Meaning to life

Question 15

How should you assess a patient’s suicide plan if they have one?

Answer 15

Lethality- likelihood it will cause death
Means- if available
Specificity- how developed is the plan?
Rescue- Is it possible patient can be rescued?

Question 16

What are some observations to make for a suicidal client?

Answer 16

Is there a weapon? are there verbal cues, using drugs, deprived of sleep, do they have a purpose in life, are they isolated? do they have support? do they have rage, pain, and how is their quality of life?

Question 17

What do suicidal individuals have in common?

Answer 17

Common purpose, goal, stimulus, stressor, emotion, cognivitve state, and perceptual state.

Question 18

What are some “clues” to assessing suicide ideation?

Answer 18

Direct clues, indirect clues, behaviors, and emotional clues.

Question 19

What are some nursing interventions for suicidal patients?

Answer 19

Crisis intervention principles, validate patients feelings but convey message that life can be better, suicide watch.

Question 20

What are some interventions for suicide watch?

Answer 20

Check patient q15min and at irregular times, 1:1, no sharps, belts, pantyhose, metal, colognes, contracts for safety.

Question 21

What are nursing goals for suicidal patients?

Answer 21

Patient will remain free from self hard, will sign a no suicide contract, will come to staff and talk, will try to understand what is leading to these behaviors.

Question 22

What do survivors of suicide (Family) need?

Answer 22

Postvention- work with family to resolve feelings.

Question 23

What are the feelings of family survivors?

Answer 23

Responsibility, guilt, blame, anger, stigma, shame, helplessness, hopelessness