TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Feeling our way in the dark: The psychiatric nursing care of suicidal people -- a literature review
JO  - International journal of nursing studies
A1  - Cutcliffe, John R.
A1  - Stevenson, Chris
SP  - 942 
EP  -  953
VL  - 45
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0020-7489
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2007.02.002
ID  - ref1
ER  -