A nurse is working on a task force setting up a suicide prevention hotline. When gathering data to support projected numbers of calls and staffing levels, the nurse is guided by the knowledge that suicide rates of adolescents and young adults:
a. are inversely related to homicide rates
b. correspond to homicide rates
c. do not predictably relate to homicide rates
d. equal homicide rates of 3 months earlier
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In determining the projected numbers of calls and staffing levels for a suicide prevention hotline, the nurse is guided by the fact that suicide rates of adolescents and young adults are inversely related to homicide rates. Geographic regions with low suicide rates tend to have high homicide rates, and regions with high suicide rates tend to have lower homicide rates.
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