Q & A: Suicide risk assessment, part 3
Emergency Management Alert, September 11, 2007
The Joint Commission's inclusion of suicide-risk assessment as a National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) and its subsequent enactment of suicide prevention as a program-specific tracer, has prompted questions from those in emergency care who wonder how the NPSGs apply to the ED. Here is the third of a three-part series featuring questions from ED staff.
Q: We are a small rural hospital that doesn't have a behavioral facility on site, although we do see psychiatric patients in our Emergency Department. Does this NPSG apply to us?
A: Yes. This goal would apply to your patients whose presenting problem is psychiatric or where the presenting injury or illness is known or presumed to be the result of a suicide attempt.
Source: Suicide Risk Assessment: Practical Strategies and Tools for Joint Commission Compliance, by Lauren R. Ball, MSW, LCSW, BCD.
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