TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Suicide assessment by psychiatric nurses: a phenomenographic study
JO  - Issues in mental health nursing
A1  - Aflague, John M.
A1  - Ferszt, Ginette G.
SP  - 248
EP  - 256
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
N2  - Although suicide assessment has been researched, nurses haven't been included in studies nor has this been explored from a phenomenographic perspective. Suicide assessment by nurses was investigated using a phenomenographic design. Data were collected through observations, vignettes, and interviews. Phenomenographic analysis discovered four qualitative differences in suicide assessment among nurse participants: reliance on (1) examples of other suicide cases, (2) intuition, (3) others' assessments, and (4) prior experience. The categories were classified into a three dimensional theoretical structure of suicide assessment: (a) Knowledge, (b) Method, and (c) Reference. Variability in participants' assessments established a structure of suicide assessment that furthers understanding of how nurses assess suicide and provides implications for practice.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0161-2840
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/01612840903267612
ID  - ref1
ER  -