The impact of staff suicide on a psychiatric inpatient unit.
A staff nurse on a psychiatric inpatient unit committed suicide.  A retrospective study of patients and staff reactions was conducted.  It showed that the inpatients dealt openly and effectively with grieving.  Staff had a great deal of difficulty with the situation.  One of the nurse's outpatients required rehospitalization.  Recommendations for more attention to the staff mourning process were made.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013405:Suicide