In an effort to prevent suicide, an important advocacy strategy for all nurses to implement is to:
1. Increase nurses' pay.
2. Increase cultural and spiritual diversity.
3. Reduce barriers to health care.
4. Reduce financial burden for all patients through charities.
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Rationale: Reducing barriers to health care is an important advocacy strategy for all nurses. Fewer barriers may encourage clients to access mental health care. Barriers may be insurance-related, financial, structural, cultural, spiritual, language-related, or related to concerns about confidentiality, discrimination, or stigma. Increasing nurses' pay is not an advocacy strategy for suicide prevention.
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