Question

1.      Why is this study important to nursing practice (in general)?

2.      Why is this study important to YOUR nursing practice or personal life?

Montgomery, S., Brouwer, W. A., Everett, P. C., Hassen, E., Lowe, T., McGreal, S. B., ...Eggert, J. (2017). Genetics in the clinical setting: What nurses need to know to provide best patient care, American Nurse Today, 12(10), 10-16.   https://www.myamericannurse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ant10-CE-Genetics-918.pdf

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Answer 1

Ans) 1) Genetics and genomics are fundamental to the nursing practice because--

• It can recognize individuals at risk for certain illnesses and diseases,

• It identifies the risks of certain disease or illnesses when conceiving children

• facilitates drug dosage or selection for certain illnesses or specific patients.

- Genetics focuses on the individual genes in the genome, resulting from single gene errors, conditions nurses encounter rather infrequently. Also on the interaction of specific genes within the genome and with external factors within the environment.

- Genetics nurses perform risk assessment, analyze the genetic contribution to disease risk, and discuss the impact of risk on health care management for individuals and families. They also provide genetics education, provide nursing care to patients and families and conduct research in genetics.

2) In personal life, taking time to learn genetics can help understand own health and make healthy choices.

- Genes that do not work correctly can cause problems is the idea that put on the need to study genetics.

- A groupof rare diseases are caused when a single gene stops working normally. Learning about family health history can provide a lot of useful information.