Genetic Competent Care for Cancer

Running head: GENETIC COMPETENT CARE 1
Genetic Competent Care for Cancer
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GENETIC COMPETENT CARE 2
Summary
Cancer is a genetic disease. Quality, safety and ethical nursing care is crucial practice of
health improvement and maintenance for a cancer patient. Nurses are the integral in policy
making strategies that affects the healthcare practice in the field of genomics and genetics. The
healthcare professional representatives of nursing organizations and nurses are the foundation of
behavioral perspectives that emphasizes on health promotion and prevention in the environment
of the family, patient and the community. Nurses and other healthcare professional are
responsible for fostering the healthcare infrastructure to ensure quality oversight of genomic and
genetic laboratory tests. The policies related to genetic illnesses like chronic cancer require
important components in nursing education to deliver healthcare regardless of setting, to
accelerate work of application and translation of genomic advances that protect and promote
health of the patients. The knowledge in nursing practice about the genomic information is
relevance to the genetic clinical care. The knowledge of nurses about the genomics/genetics and
the skills obtained and assessed through the risk in a family history are sufficient to assist people
to avert the adult assault disorders, mortality and morbidity consequences (Huston, 2013).
Roles of the nurses
The nurse is required to be an expert in assessing the patient’s emotional and physical
status, health practices, past history and both the family’s and patient’s knowledge about the
treatment of the disease. The oncology nurse always has a better chance to form the necessary
rapport for efficient education to the patient and the family members than any other healthcare
team. The education to the patient and the family begins prior to therapy and proceeds during
and after the therapy. The nurse plays an important role in complex and coordination of multiple