A psychiatric nurse is developing measurable outcome criteria for a suicidal client with ineffective individual coping. The desired goal is that the client will:
a. describe two reasons why a person should want to live
b. verbalize feeling less depressed
c. demonstrate the use of at least two effective coping skills
d. state feeling less hopeless
C
A measurable outcome for a suicidal client would be that the client demonstrates the use of at least two effective coping skills. The two new skills can be used by the client to address stressful situations instead of using suicide as the method of avoiding the stressful situation.
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