The goal of this program is to provide nurses with the skills necessary to identify alcoholism in their hospitalized patients and to intervene on their behalf. List three risk factors for the development of alcoholism. Identify laboratory findings pertinent to the alcoholic patient.
Alcohol is the most abused drug in the world.
However, admitting diagnoses often overshadow alcohol addiction, which may then go untreated. This program will present a comprehensive profile of the alcoholic patient, so that nurses can make an early identification and intervene as necessary. Since 1951, alcoholism has been recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association. Although it affects both men and women, approximately one third of all problem drinkers in the US are women. Despite this women are less likely than men to have had an alcohol history taken.