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Nursing Interventions for Risk for Suicide

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Nursing Interventions for Risk for Suicide



1. Clients can build a trusting relationship.
Action:
  • Introduce yourself to the client.
  • Respond to client talks with patience and do not deny.
  • Speak firmly, clearly, and honestly.
  • Use a sense of warmth and friendly.
  • Accompany clients injure themselves when the desire to increase.

2. The client can be protected from suicidal behavior.
Action:
  • Keep clients from objects that could harm (knives, razor blades, scissors, rope, glass, etc.).
  • Place the client in a quiet room and was always seen by a nurse.
  • Closely supervise clients.

3. The client can express feelings.
Action:
  • Listen to grievances felt.
  • Be empathetic to increase the expression of doubt, fear and despair.
  • Give a boost to reveal why and how expectations.
  • Give it time and opportunity to tell the meaning of suffering, death, and others.
  • Give support to the client's actions or words that indicate a desire to live.

4. Clients can improve self-esteem
Action:
  • Help to understand that the client can overcome despair.
  • Assess and internal muster individual sources ..
  • Help identify the sources of hope (eg relationships among, beliefs, things to be resolved).

5. The client can use adaptive coping.
Action:
  • Teach to identify the experience a pleasant experience every day (eg a walk, reading a favorite book, writing letters, etc.).
  • Help to recognize things that are loved and cherished, and its importance to the lives of others, put aside about failures in health.
  • Give encouragement to share the concerns of other people who have a problem or the same disease and has had a positive experience in dealing with these problems with effective coping.

6. Clients can use social support.
Action:
  • Assess and take advantage of individual external sources (the closest, a team of health care, support groups, religious affiliations).
  • Assess the support system of beliefs (value, past experience, religious activities, religious beliefs).
  • Perform appropriate reference indication (eg counseling religious leaders).

7. Clients can use the drug properly and appropriately
Action:
  • Discuss medications (name, dose, frequency, effects and side effects of taking medication).
  • Help using drugs with the principle of true 5 (right patient, medication, dose, method, timing).
  • Encourage talking about the effects and side effects are felt.
  • Give positive reinforcement when using the drug properly.

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