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Improvement of the Crisis Prevention Tool and Safety Plan for the
Kekela Mental Health Unit at Queens Medical Center
PICOT - Intervention
What do you plan to do for the patient?
Revise the current crisis prevention assessment
form to be more streamlined and user-friendly.
Utilize personalized crisis prevention information
provided by patient in order to prevent/minimize
crisis by recognizing warning signs and deescalating a situation through coping strategies.
PICOT - Comparison
What is the alternative to your plan?
Keep the crisis assessment tool that is (not) being
used/utilized
Utilize different tools
National/International:
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (CPI)
Resource Guides for creating Safety Plans
Crisis Assessment Tool (CAT)
Implement - immediately
Analysis - at least 1 month
Evaluation
Verbal feedback
Measure utilization
Measure simplicity
References
Data Assessment Registry Mental Health & Addiction.Crisis Assessment Tool (CAT).
Retrieved from
https://dmha.fssa.in.gov/DARMHA/Documents/SFY2016ANSAManual_08282015.pdf
Heckemann, B., Zeller, A., Hahn, S., Dassen, T., Schols, J., & Halfens, R. (2015). The
effect of aggression management training programmes for nursing staff and students
working in an acute hospital setting. A narrative review of current literature. Nurse
Education Today, 35(1), 212-219. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2014.08.003
References (Cont)
Rings, J. A., Alexander, P. A., Silvers, V. N., & Gutierrez, P. M. (2012). Adapting the
Safety Planning Intervention for Use in a Veterans Psychiatric' Inpatient Group Setting.
Journal Of Mental Health Counseling, 34(2), 95-109.
Roberts, A. & Ottens, J. (2005). The seven-stage crisis intervention model: a road map
to goal attainment problem solving, and crisis resolution. Retrieved from:
http://btci.edina.clockss.org/cgi/reprint/5/4/329