Providing Genetic Nursing Care to Patients With Chronic Illnesses

Providing Genetic Nursing Care To Patients With Chronic Illnesses
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Providing Genetic Nursing Care To Patients With Chronic Illnesses
Genomics is important for patient assessment. The Human Genome Project has had a significant implication on nursing and healthcare practice. The effect of genomic technology and information can improve patient outcomes regarding cost savings, safety, and quality. The outcomes are reliant on using information technology in the field of healthcare. The individual genetic variations and makeup inform the risk of various chronic diseases, including in newborn, childhood, and adulthood situations (Jolissaint et al., 2021). Genomics can be used as a screening tool to characterize health issues, improve medication choice and therapies that focus on the underlying disease genomics and gain insights on how to manage symptoms.
The new advances in genomics have been very important that the American Nurses Association has introduced a concept of genomics/genetics in the Nursing Information Standards (Bartley et al. 2020). This means that nurses should incorporate genomic and genetic informatics and technologies in their practice. It is important to apply genomic and genetic services and information to clients based on their literacy, knowledge level, religion, preferred language, and culture. Clinical genomics entails using several approaches to obtain and analyze geneti...