A nurse is interviewing a client in an outpatient drug treatment clinic. To promote success in the recovery process, which outcome should the nurse expect the client to initially accomplish?
A. The client will identify one person to turn to for support.
B. The client will give up all old drinking buddies.
C. The client will be able to verbalize the effects of alcohol on the body.
D. The client will correlate life problems with alcohol use.
D
To promote the recovery process the nurse should expect that the client would initially correlate life problems with alcohol use. Acceptance of the problem is the first step of the recovery process.
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