A challenge in identifying people at risk for substance abuse is ...

[vHAUNG6011]

A challenge in identifying people at risk for substance abuse is that many health care practitioners in primary care do not directly, or routinely, ask about alcohol or drug use when collecting information about a person's health history.
 
  Reliable and valid screening instruments that are easy to administer are important tools to aid community health nurses in evaluating populations and individual people at risk for substance abuse. Using your knowledge of women who are pregnant, which screening instrument for alcohol use has been validated for assessment in this group?
  A) AUDIT-C
  B) CAGE
  C) SMAST-G
  D) T-ACE

Question 2

College students participate in heavy or binge drinking. Using your knowledge of evidence-based practice in the nursing care of populations most at risk for alcohol abuse,
 
  what reason are college students' most likely going to engage in heavy or binge drinking?
  A) Family dysfunction
  B) Violence
  C) Painful emotions
  D) Enhance mood or affective state

[carolinefletcherr]

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

D

[vHAUNG6011]

TYSM

[31809pancho]

Gracias!