NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 40: Crisis Intervention, Suicide Risk Assessment, and Keeping Patients Safe

Sarah Mitchell explains how to ask directly about suicide, rank risk factors and method lethality, and set up unit precautions from one-to-one observation to mouth checks after medications. She covers the phases of crisis intervention, homicidal ideation and the duty to warn, de-escalation of an escalating patient, and post-crisis safety planning, with scenarios on sudden calm in a depressed patient and a specific threat in the emergency department.

Lesson 40 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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