This study with a descriptive focus and a qualitative approach aimed at the identification of the labor nurse knowledge about the alcoholism; the description of his perception about his reinsertion on the labor context; the discussion of possibilities and limitations concerning the interventions he could make, analyzing his perception aiming at the reinsertion of this worker to the labor world. The data have been obtained through interviews with a semi-structured script, carried out on the enterprises where the 27 individuals of this study used to work. The analysis of the content has allowed identifying four categories: the alcoholism as a disease; the stigma and the prejudice, the reinsertion of the alcoholist worker and possibilities and limits of the interventions of labor nursing. It has been verified that the degree of knowledge of the labor nurse influences on his perception about alcoholism, on the possibility of reinsertion of the alcoholist worker and, also, on the interventions of these professional individuals.
Alcoholism; Labor Nursing; Public Health