A Patient Is Admitted to a Psychiatric Unit with Severe

Multiple Choice

A patient is admitted to a psychiatric unit with severe depression and thoughts of suicide. The patient is placed on suicide precautions. When caring for this patient, the nurse recognizes that

A) people who talk about harming themselves are at less risk.
B) patients who verbalize or behaviorally demonstrate "a weight being lifted off the shoulders" are no longer at risk.
C) once the acute crisis has subsided, the patient is no longer at risk.
D) a major goal in evaluating suicidal risk is to assess for imminent danger of doing harm to self.