Here in descending order is the top 10 most common sequelae of chronic alcohol use and abuse;
1. Live failure
2. Pancreatitis
3. Cancer
4. GI bleed (esophageal varices related to 1)
5. Neurological dysfunction (wernickes encephalopathy and korsakoffs psychosis)
6. Immunosuppression
7. Malnutrition and vitamin deficiency
8. Osteoporosis
9. Nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy
10. Accidents
This is the definitive list in descending order from internal medicine text books. As you see renal disease is not a common finding in alcohol abuse. This so called nurse states only kidney disease. She is either a moron or not a nurse. In either event not a credible source.