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In our EMR (Cerner) on admission, there is a Suicide risk assessment area in which we fill out. OK fine, but do we really have to chart the suicide risk assessment on every patient every shift? It seems ridiculous to me. Yes, if we identify someone ...
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America is the 6th, I think, most suicidal country in the world and it's the leading cause of deaths, I also think in America.
How is COVID going to affect those statistics re job losses.... possible homelessness from the losses, long term illn...
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When 17 year old Jordan Binion died from suicide, his parents, Deborah and Willie Binion, were devastated. The fact that he had been suffering from mental health issues prior to his death made the loss especially acute. As they tried to find their wa...
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Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death, with a reported 45,970 suicides in the United States in 2020. One might automatically think of the general population; however, the CDC notes that healthcare workers are at a higher risk. This has been an i...
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May William Coddington rest in peace. My prayers are with his family, friends and fellow colleagues. A nurse struggled with COVID-19 trauma. He was found dead in his car
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I am still grieving her loss. Tomorrow is their joint memorial... one I really wanted to attend. But since I just had surgery last week, I can't travel. I dropped my parents and brother off at the airport yesterday, after warning them of the security...
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Suicidal and suicide attempt survivors require special care. This is even truer in a pediatric ICU (PICU). Feri Kiani, MSN, PHN, CCRN, RRT, NPS and Sandra Lee, MSN, RN, CCRN recently presented the topic: Youth at risk for Self-Harm and Suicide.
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Dark Secrets
Two years ago, there were several incidents of "jumpers" from a nearby parking garage that had occurred within a short time frame, and I couldn't get past the sadness and horror as I walked past it every day on my way to work. It tou...
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An elderly couple near Ferndale, Washington may have given into the stressors of financial struggles from looming healthcare bills. An article published on wtap, an NBC affiliate, reported that dispatchers received a call on the morning of August 7th...
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Read in its entirety: Top E.R. Doctor Who Treated Virus Patients Dies by Suicide Honor, respect, and admiration. May she rest in peace.
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Reading the Article by Nurse Beth, "Can We Talk About Nurse Suicide", prompted me to share my own personal experience and perspective on depression's effect on the nurse. I personally believe that the fast paced, high work demands, and nurses' "eatin...
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Recently I was looking for information on the effects of the pandemic on those with mental health disorders. MULTIPLE articles referred to a mental health crisis among nurses leading to an increase in suicides. A short time later, I learned of the su...
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Hopefully, many of us will never know what it’s like to lose someone to suicide. However, for those who sadly are living with it, we feel compassion and acknowledge their grief and loss. On November 19th, we dedicate the day to those who have lost lo...
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It was the late-1980s and a perfect holiday eve before the phone rang. I was reading a captivating mystery and enjoying a glass of Cote du Rhone as the crackling, hypnotic fire licked the pine logs. The blazing fire’s red and gold flames flickered on...
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Once or twice the death was Mother Nature's way of reminding us who was boss. The other times it was narcotic diversion by a coworker; after all, how many professions have access to narcotics while working? Nurses, Docs, Law Enforcement and similar r...
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Nurse SuicideReports of nurse suicide are largely anecdotal. Sometimes nurses die by suicide after they’ve made a fatal mistake. Kim Hiatt was one such nurse. Kim was a critical care RN who worked at Seattle Children’s Hospital for 24 years before th...