A highly suicidal patient who has been hospitalized for 2 weeks committed suicide during the night.The measure that will be helpful to staff and patients having to deal with the event is:

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Interventions should be aimed at helping the staff and patients come to terms with the loss and grow as a result of the incident.A psychological postmortem assessment should be conducted by staff.A community meeting should be scheduled to inform patients and encourage them to share their feelings and responses.Staff should provide additional support and reassurance to patients and should seek opportunities for peer support and clinical supervision.Efforts to reduce exposure to information about the death would reduce trust,prevent opportunities to help survivors cope,and likely prove ineffective,since such news can almost never be contained.Rushing the discharge of surviving patients would be unsafe and unethical.

A Highly Suicidal Patient Who Has Been Hospitalized for 2