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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

News Release - UC College of Nursing to Introduce New Curriculum on Alcohol Use Disorders




CINCINNATI - Do you drink?


That question doesn't get you anywhere with patients. What if they say no?, says Christine Savage, PhD, associate professor and director of graduate health nursing at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Nursing.


Savage is the editor of a new set of Web-based curriculum modules on alcohol abuse and alcoholism on track for classroom use at UC in fall 2009 and at nursing schools across the country. The curriculum materials, geared toward the nursing profession, are being put together by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which is an arm of the National Institutes of Health. NIAAA has similar curricula for colleges of medicine and social work.

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