Genomics and Nursing Practice: Advancing the Nursing Profession
The remarkable advances in genetics and genomics over the last three decades have necessitated initiatives on the part of all healthcare disciplines to assist providers in applying this new knowledge in practice. Nursing has responded by planning and implementing a number of projects that address the challenging issues created by genetic and genomic advances. This article presents an overview of the considerable progress made in sequencing the human genome, progress that has provided the opportunity for the remarkable advances we are seeing in healthcare today. It also describes how various professional healthcare groups and associations are working together to enhance nurses' understanding of this genomic revolution, thus paving the way for nurses to develop core competencies, and enabling them to incorporate genomic advances into their daily nursing care. The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses is presented as a framework for responding to these rapidly occurring changes. Two case studies illustrate how nurses are applying the emerging science and technology in genetics and genomics to advance the nursing profession and provide competent nursing care to patients faced with genetic and genomic healthcare concerns.
Remarkable advances in healthcare have been achieved in the past twenty years as a result of the rapid increases in the genetic and genomic sciences. The use of genetic and genomic information is increasingly important in providing effective healthcare. Genetics focuses on the individual genes in the genome, generally addressing those conditions resulting from single gene errors, conditions nurses encounter rather infrequently. Genomic information focuses on the interaction of specific genes within the genome and with external factors within the environment. These multifaceted genomic changes are now known to contribute to a number of the more frequently seen patient conditions, including some of our chronic diseases, and have many implications for nursing practice.
This article presents an overview of the considerable progress made in sequencing the human genome, progress that has provided the opportunity for the remarkable advances we are seeing in healthcare today. It also describes how various professional healthcare groups and associations are working together to enhance nurses' understanding of this genomic revolution, thus paving the way for nurses to develop core competencies and enabling them to incorporate genomic advances into their daily nursing care. The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses is presented as a framework for responding to these rapidly occurring changes. Two case studies illustrate how nurses are applying the emerging science and technology in genetics and genomics to advance the nursing profession and provide competent nursing care to patients faced with genetic and genomic healthcare concerns.
The remarkable advances in genetics and genomics over the last three decades have necessitated initiatives on the part of all healthcare disciplines to assist providers in applying this new knowledge in practice. Nursing has responded by planning and implementing a number of projects that address the challenging issues created by genetic and genomic advances. This article presents an overview of the considerable progress made in sequencing the human genome, progress that has provided the opportunity for the remarkable advances we are seeing in healthcare today. It also describes how various professional healthcare groups and associations are working together to enhance nurses' understanding of this genomic revolution, thus paving the way for nurses to develop core competencies, and enabling them to incorporate genomic advances into their daily nursing care. The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses is presented as a framework for responding to these rapidly occurring changes. Two case studies illustrate how nurses are applying the emerging science and technology in genetics and genomics to advance the nursing profession and provide competent nursing care to patients faced with genetic and genomic healthcare concerns.
Remarkable advances in healthcare have been achieved in the past twenty years as a result of the rapid increases in the genetic and genomic sciences. The use of genetic and genomic information is increasingly important in providing effective healthcare. Genetics focuses on the individual genes in the genome, generally addressing those conditions resulting from single gene errors, conditions nurses encounter rather infrequently. Genomic information focuses on the interaction of specific genes within the genome and with external factors within the environment. These multifaceted genomic changes are now known to contribute to a number of the more frequently seen patient conditions, including some of our chronic diseases, and have many implications for nursing practice.
This article presents an overview of the considerable progress made in sequencing the human genome, progress that has provided the opportunity for the remarkable advances we are seeing in healthcare today. It also describes how various professional healthcare groups and associations are working together to enhance nurses' understanding of this genomic revolution, thus paving the way for nurses to develop core competencies and enabling them to incorporate genomic advances into their daily nursing care. The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses is presented as a framework for responding to these rapidly occurring changes. Two case studies illustrate how nurses are applying the emerging science and technology in genetics and genomics to advance the nursing profession and provide competent nursing care to patients faced with genetic and genomic healthcare concerns.
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