Comment
Yes. Your job is to promote health, not simply treat illness.
Do you have any role in providing counselling/assistance to other prisoners or staff who may have been caught up in incidents of self-harm?
Your answer
yes it's, and that is by casuality
Comment
You should have such a role. Prisoners and staff are often considerably traumatised by such incidents, especially if death has resulted and/or a special responsibility is felt for the person. Many will attempt to deal with the incident by humour, but it important that medical staff make themselves genuinely available, both formally and informally, after such an incident.
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