Introduction The Level of Care Utilization System or LOCUS tool has been designed by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (2009) to allow staff who work on inpatient hospital environments with patients with psychiatric problems (such as emergency departments, psychiatric sections of general hospitals or in psychiatric hospitals) to determine the level of care that…
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The Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR)
New! This article has been updated August 9, 2016 to include more information about the scoring and links to useful tools to accompany. The Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR) is a tool that nurses can utilize to assess for suicide risk in a clinical, inpatient environment. The tool was originally developed to assist…
Suicide in Hospitals and Inpatients
Note: I originally planned to write an article entitled “Suicide in Special Populations”, but as I began doing some research, I realized that each population was so filled with research that each would be better split up into individual articles. So this is the first of the series, that I hope will contain suicide in…