The nurse's efforts to assist a suicidal client to examine alternatives to suicide are best supported by
a. tricyclic antidepressants.
b. the client's ambivalence.
c. suicide precautions.
d. hospitalization.
B
Ambivalence is experiencing both the wish to die and the wish to live. The client's ambivalence
about dying as a solution to an intolerable life situation is an important asset to the nurse. It provides
the nurse with a positive base that can be reinforced. Tricyclic antidepressants take up to 3 weeks to
be effective. Hospitals are not 100% suicide proof, and hospitalization may not prompt the client to
look for alternatives to suicide. Suicide precautions may not prompt the client to look for alternatives
to suicide but rather for ways to evade the precautions.
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