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Suicide Patient Safety

Three-Step Suicide Risk

Guidance for the Urgent Care

Step 1: Identify
The staff identifies a patient at risk for
intentional harm to self or others.

Step 2: Observe
Provide 1:1 monitoring of at-risk patients
with continuous visual observation.

Step 3: Remove
Remove all environmental risk items.
Patient access to certain areas may need
to be restricted to prevent patients from
reaching items that could be harmful.

Environmental assessment: the staff need to be
aware of the environment of care and note areas
that could be dangerous for patients at high risk
for suicide. The patient will need a 1:1
monitoring and environmental items in the room
will need to be removed.