Risk for Suicide NANDA Definition

NANDA Definition - Risk for Suicide :

At risk for self-inflicted, life-threatening injury

Related Factors:

Behavioral

History of previous suicide attempt; impulsiveness; buying a gun; stockpiling medicines; making or changing a will; giving away possessions; sudden euphoric recovery from major depression; marked changes in behavior, attitude, school performance

Verbal

Threats of killing oneself; states desire to die/end it all

Situational

Living alone; retired; relocation, institutionalization; economic instability; loss of autonomy/independence; presence of gun in home; adolescents living in nontraditional settings (e.g., juvenile detention center, prison, half-way house, group home)

Psychological

Family history of suicide; alcohol and substance use/abuse; psychiatric illness/disorder (e.g., depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder); abuse in childhood; guilt; gay or lesbian youth

Demographic

Age: elderly, young adult males, adolescents; race: Caucasian, Native American; gender: male divorced, widowed

Physical

Physical illness; terminal illness; chronic pain

Social

Loss of important relationship; disrupted family life; grief, bereavement; poor support systems; loneliness; hopelessness; helplessness; social isolation; legal or disciplinary problem; cluster suicides