{"id":1047,"date":"2018-06-26T00:06:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2018-10-17T15:56:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:56:58","slug":"patient-safety-moment-dealing-with-unexpected-suicidal-ideation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/2018\/06\/patient-safety-moment-dealing-with-unexpected-suicidal-ideation\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Safety Moment &#8211; Dealing with Unexpected Suicidal Ideation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/files\/2018\/06\/Patient-Safety-Moment-Unexpected-Suicidal-Ideation.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Patient Safety Moment &#8211; Unexpected Suicidal Ideation<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">After screening, a patient was considered at no risk for suicide. Later, the patient unexpectedly admitted suicidal thoughts to a provider. Upon the provider leaving the room to trigger the appropriate response for suicidal patients, the patient made an attempt at self-harm. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">If a patient unexpectedly discloses suicidal thoughts, make every effort to NOT leave the patient unattended. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Consider using the call bell to get additional staff in the room. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Consider moving to the doorway while maintaining sight of the patient to call for help. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Behavioral and psychiatric interviews are at the highest risk of unexpected disclosure of suicidal thoughts. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">If you are about to enter a room for this purpose, consider letting others caring for the patient know why you are in the room. Ask them to listen for any call bell or request for assistance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient Safety Moment &#8211; Unexpected Suicidal Ideation After screening, a patient was considered at no risk for suicide. Later, the patient unexpectedly admitted suicidal thoughts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality-and-safety","category-rca-findings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}