NURS 3234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, World Health Organization, Alcoholism
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Sbirt: s = screening: a patient/client for risky substance use/misuse. Standardized screening tools: bi = brief intervention: providing feedback & advice to eliminate/treat substance use/misuse, rt = referral to treatment: professional referral for therapy & treatment. What is sbirt: early screening to prevent the cascade of addiction, screening tools for substances, etoh, correlational for mental illness/traumas at local, regional, state & national levels. Who should be screened: every patient on every encounter by a health care professional, **adolescents, **college students, substance abuse/misuse has no barriers no one is immune to risky behaviors. Edward and judith bernstein for use in the emergency department by project assert: audit, developed by the world health organization, the alcohol use disorders. It was validated for international use: audit-c, the shorter version of the original audit, this serves the same purpose, but only asks three questions, dast-10, developed in 1982 by the addiction research foundation, the drug abuse.
