MCN’s customizable template, Suicide Assessment, is taken from our Behavioral Health Partial Hospitalization Program Policy and Procedure Manual. MCN Healthcare’s proven policy and procedure templates, competencies and compliance tools have assisted more than 20,000 health care organizations worldwide meet their regulatory compliance goals.

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Here is some sample content from Suicide Assessment:

	POLICY: Acutely or imminently suicidal patients are not appropriate for the Partial Hospitalization Program. These patients, following assessment, will be referred for inpatient hospitalization. PROCEDURE: When a patient expresses suicidal ideation, staff must notify the Case Manager or Charge Nurse who will initiate a course of action. The patient should not be left alone and will be monitored by a staff person continuously. An assessment will be initiated to determine the seriousness and imminence of the suicidal intent. Factors to consider: Plan: how specific, details of plan,...
Second excerpt:
	...in life situation: losses, divorce, deaths, etc. Lack of support: family, friends Degree of hopelessness: inability to see hope If patient is assessed to be acutely suicidal, the attending psychiatrist must be advised immediately. If attending psychiatrist cannot be reached, and the patient agrees, patient is to be sent voluntarily, via ambulance or taxi with accompanying staff to the designated inpatient facility after appropriate arrangements are made by the see Transfer for...