An emergency department (ED) recently implemented a suicide-screening tool for adolescents as part of a quality improvement initiative. As a result, referrals for counseling increased within the community. What is the role of the QI team as a result of this outcome?

Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu

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An emergency department (ED) recently implemented a suicide-screening tool for adolescents as part of a quality improvement initiative. As a result, referrals for counseling increased within the community. What is the role of the QI team as a result of this outcome? 
 
   Ramanpreet Kaur Sidhu   
 
 ID: 137304

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The QI team will need to reassemble to discuss additional needs with the implementation of the risk assessment tool

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The QI team is not responsible for out of hospital interventions

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The QI team should evaluate the nursing staff's use of the tool

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The QI team has met their outcome objectives with the increase in counseling referrals

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