Week 3 - Important concepts

Question 1

What is the primary task when working with a client at risk for suicide?

Answer 1

Safety

Question 2

When was it argued until to have a net barrier for the GG bridge?

Answer 2

2010

Question 3

Suicidal behaviour is acute in nature. what does this mean?

Answer 3

If you can get the person through the crisis, chances are good they won’t kill themselves later on.

Question 4

lost interest in things that they used to find enjoyable

Answer 4

anhedonia

Question 5

What is the number one predictor of suicide risk?

Answer 5

Previous attempt(s)

Question 6

comments like, why bother or what difference does it make?

Answer 6

ambivalent wishes to die

Question 7

What are key questions to ask during a suicide assessment?

Answer 7

Ask about their feelings
Ask about a plan
Ask about reasons to live

Question 8

What is the acronym for suicide warning signs?

Answer 8

IS PATH WARM
Ideation
substance abuse
purposelessness
Agitation/anxiety
Trapped
Hopelessness
Withdrawal
Anger
Recklessness
Mood changes

Question 9

What is the acronym for signs of depression?

Answer 9

SIGECAPS
Sleep disturbed
Interest decreased
Guilt
Energy low
Concentration is poor
Appetite is poor
Psychomotor agitation
Suicidal ideation

Question 10

often in the elderly; depressed but not overtly sad; sometimes confuse it as just the way they are

Answer 10

hidden depression

Question 11

What is the acronym for suicide risk assessment (which ones get a +1).

Answer 11

SADPERSONS
sex - male
age (less than 20, over 40)
depression
previous attempt
ethanol abuse
rational thinking loss
social supports lacking
organized plan
no spouse
sick

Question 12

I want to die; I am going to kill myself

Answer 12

active

Question 13

I wish I could disappear; I’d like to fall asleep and never wake up

Answer 13

passive

Question 14

code for missing person

Answer 14

code yellow

Question 15

written on verbal agreement between HCP and the patient; states that patient will not engage in suicidal behaviour for a specific period of time

Answer 15

safety contract

Question 16

process of recognizing one’s own beliefs, thoughts, motivations, biases, and limitations and how they affect others.

Answer 16

self awareness

Question 17

What are the stages of the therapeutic relationship.

Answer 17

Orientation, working and resolution phases

Question 18

patient’s feelings toward the nurse and their relationship; transfer of feelings held about significant other in the patient’s life onto the nurse

Answer 18

transference

Question 19

nurse’s feelings toward the patient; becomes an issue when not recognized and negatively impacting NC relationship

Answer 19

counter-transference

Question 20

keep unpleasant/unacceptable thoughts, impulses from consciousness

Answer 20

repression

Question 21

refuse to accept unpleasant reality

Answer 21

denial

Question 22

use of logical explanation to justify unpleasant material and keep it conscious

Answer 22

rationalization

Question 23

attribute own unacceptable motives or characteristics onto others

Answer 23

projection

Question 24

arises when we experience distress over our inability to meet our ethical obligations in the way we believe we should

Answer 24

moral distress

Question 25

Research shows that moral distress occurs in HCP when…

Answer 25

resource shortages, organization demands, unreasonable expectations from society that “deviant behaviours” should be controlled