@article{ref1,
title="Feeling our way in the dark: The psychiatric nursing care of suicidal people -- a literature review",
journal="International journal of nursing studies",
year="2007",
author="Cutcliffe, John R. and Stevenson, Chris",
volume="45",
number="6",
pages="942 - 953",
abstract="Psychiatric/Mental Health nurses have a long history of being front-line carers of suicidal people, and yet the international epidemiological literature, methodological problems notwithstanding, suggests that contemporary care practices for suicidal people have much room for improvement. As a result, this paper focuses on several areas/issues of care of the suicidal person, and in so doing, critiques the extant literature, such as it is. This critique illustrates that there is a disconcerting lack of empirically induced theory to guide practice and even less empirical evidence to support-specific interventions. The paper concludes, accepting the axiomatic complexity and multi-dimensionality of suicide, and the undeniable fact that suicide is a human drama, played out in the everyday lives of people, that for Psychiatric/Mental Health nurses, caring for suicidal people must be an interpersonal endeavor; and one personified by talking and listening.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-7489",
doi="10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2007.02.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2007.02.002"
}