When teaching students about suicide, the nursing instructor ...

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When teaching students about suicide, the nursing instructor knows that basic suicide precautions include:
 
  1. Beginning measures with an order from the psychiatrist.
  2. Checking the client's whereabouts and safety every 15 minutes.
  3. Maintaining one-to-one supervision during visits.
  4. Providing one-to-one nursing supervision at all times.

Question 2

A psychiatricmental health nurse is attending a seminar. The speaker discusses how certain psychiatric diagnoses are associated with stereotypes. Which of the following actions ensures that the client's social identity is not discredited?
 
  1. Refer to a client as delusional and psychotic.
  2. Refer to a client as a schizophrenic.
  3. Refer to a client as a paranoid.
  4. Refer to a client as X who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

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Answer to Question 1

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Rationale: The client's whereabouts and safety are checked and documented every 15 minutes. Basic suicide precautions may be started without a psychiatrist's order, but a psychiatric consultation must be obtained as soon as possible. The client may remain in the room with the door open unless accompanied by staff or a family member.

Answer to Question 2

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Rationale: There are many negative stereotypes attached to the diagnostic label of schizophrenia. It is essential that clients not be referred to by their disease or in ways that discredit their social identity.