Suicide Issues in Mental Health

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Suicide Issues in Mental Health
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Suicide Issues in Mental Health
Introduction
In mental health studies, suicide is a significant issue that needs to be addressed with the
help of the nursing staff in clinical settings. Research has focused this issue and the reasons are
made known to avoid the future cases of suicide. Mostly, the reasons are hard to anticipate in
advance but once a patient survives, it becomes the ethical duty of the nurses to take effective
care of these patients (Sheehan, et al., 2019). Nurse teachers can teach effective strategies to
their student nurses about how to implement theories in the real work settings and to save the
patients who tried to commit suicide (Sun, Long, Chiang & Chou, 2019). “In mental health,
when depression exceeds the highest levels of endurance, people tend to commit suicide and a
nurse is charged with the duty to develop effective strategies which can bring back the patients
towards the normal course of life."
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Most of the people commit suicide to get rid of psychological pain and their mental
weakness offers them a solution to end up their lives because they find no charm in a life with
problems. This is a serious form of self-harm and many people die during the suicide attempt.
Therapies used to help out the survivors is the need of the clinical best practices and nurses have
to perform their role in making the patients hopeful about life. The negative thoughts must be
removed from the mind of the patient and effective communication along with kind words of
empathy will increase the chances of the speedy recovery of suicidal patients (Rudd & Roberts,
2019).
Suicide has also become 10th biggest reason of the deaths in the USA and in the past 15
years, this rate has increased rapidly because of the mental health issues and incapability of the

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people to face the realities of life with courage. To prevent the precious lives of people from the
attempts of suicide, national suicide preventive policies have been developed. These policies will
be implemented with the help of health care providers and nurses will take care of all those who
are going through severe mental issues and have tried to commit suicide once (Hogan, 2020).
In the hospitals and clinical settings, dealing with emergency cases of suicide is an
important task. Healthcare providers have to take special care of these cases. The standards and
recovery measures need to be implemented immediately because the number of patients with
suicide risks is increasing day by day (Zhou, et. al., 2019).
Most of the people are prone to suicidal attacks because they have low self-esteem,
nurses can make efforts to engage these people in positive thoughts and can increase their self-
esteem. Nurses can also provide social support and this will remove the disappointment and
despair from the lives of depressed people (Matel-Anderson, Bekhet & Garnier-Villarreal, 2019).
Nurses have to fulfill another ethical guideline in which trust is developed between the patient
and the nurse. This trust is maintained through open communication and respect shown towards
the patient. This strategy will not only offer help to the unique cases but can also be documented
for further use in psychiatric nursing practices (Vandewalle, et. al., 2019).
In Australia, NMBA (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia) Standards define the
ethical roles of nurses and midwives. These standards guide the nurses to deal with the patients
and their families in an appropriate manner. Those patients who are brought unconscious in the
hospitals, they need the support of the nurses because they cannot move their bodies. So, nurses
need to take care of those patients with care and affection. The families of such patients need
empathy and nurses need to treat the family members of the patients with empathy. To those
patients, who have tried to commit suicide, nurses must take care for the usage of those