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Implementation Of A Mental Health Environmental Risk Assessment Tool, Alan Le
Implementation Of A Mental Health Environmental Risk Assessment Tool, Alan Le
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background: Patient suicide is a serious safety issue, especially in mental health settings since suicides disproportionately affect psychiatric patients. Environmental hazards are a primary contributing factor in patient suicide cases.
Problem: Mental health staff may lack tools and training to perform proper environmental risk assessments, which is the case at a psychiatric crisis residential center in northern California that utilized no environmental risk assessment tool.
Methods: An environmental risk assessment tool was implemented at the site for four months to increase staff confidence, ability to identify hazards and decrease risk of patient suicides.
Interventions: The Suicide and …