Suicide

• Suicide 


  Outcome of a person's inability to deal with catastrophic result
• Suicide Ideation 


  Person's thoughts regarding suicide
• Suicidal Gestures 


  Non-lethal but self-injurious acts; "attention getting"
• Suicidal Threats 


  Verbal expression or statements that may declare intent to commit suicide
• Suicidal Attempt


  Actual implementation of ending one's life
• Suicide Precautions

  • Stay with the client
  • Safety Contract (no suicide, no harm, no self-injury), patient agrees to contact staff if he has an impulse to be self-destructive.
  • Remove sharp or harmful objects

  The most common time of implementing suicide plans is during the change of shift when the client is unattended.
• Safety is always the Priority!