When performing a suicide risk assessment, for which factors ...

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When performing a suicide risk assessment, for which factors should the nurse assess based on an understanding of the psychiatric causal factor in suicide?
 
  1. Anticipatory grief
  2. Fearful anxiety
  3. Acute illness
  4. Increased productivity

Question 2

The nurse manager is providing an in-service to the staff nurses regarding personality characteristics associated with increased rates of suicide. Which characteristics will the nurse include in the teaching? Select all that apply.
 
  1. Aggressiveness
  2. Impulsivity
  3. Passivity
  4. Compulsivity
  5. Assertiveness

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: 2
Explanation: Anxiety has been implicated as a psychiatric causal factor in most research that has focused on the study of suicide. Specifically, anxiety that is fearful and filled with apprehension has been linked to high tendencies of suicide. Depression and decreased, not increased, productivity have been linked to an increased risk in suicide. Chronic disease, not acute disease, is linked to an increased risk for suicide. Anticipatory grief is not associated with increased risk for suicide.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: 1, 2
Explanation: Research involving post-mortem studies and individuals who have attempted suicide and survived show decreased central serotonin activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. This is exhibited in a higher level of aggression and impulsive behavior. Passivity, compulsivity, and assertiveness have not been associated with increased rates of suicide.