Nursing Network for Assessment, Referral and Management
Learn genetics using case-oriented problems. The training includes assessment exams, sample presentations, and genetic resources. It is directed towards nurses in all specialties.
Recognize the following indicators of genetic disease:
- Infants with feeding problems, unusual appearance, birth defects
- Infants with lethargy, acidosis, abnormal metabolic screen (now >27 disorders)
- Children with unusual appearance and/or developmental delay
- Children with school problems and/or behavior differences
- Adolescents with exercise fatigue, fainting spells; females with pregnancy risks
- Couples with familial disease, advanced maternal age, miscarriages
- Couples with ethnicity qualifying for genetic screening
- Adults with familial vascular disease, joint laxity, sudden death
- Adults with familial cancer, particularly cancer of early onset
- Adults with familial mental illness or degenerative disease
Develop Genetic REYDAR (Recognize, Eydentify, Determine, Assess, Refer)
Contents
- A brochure for health care organizations to encourage appointment of nursing genetic coordinators and sharing of genetic resources
- A 200-page genetic primer highlighting relevant case presentations and assessment/referral guidelines followed by problem-oriented chapters on clinical genetics
- A dysmorphology checklist that can be used to document minor anomalies on physical examination
- A genetic resource directory that includes nursing articles and contacts for genetics
- Power point presentations that can be modified for in-service and outreach education
- Examinations by discipline to allow self-assessment and evidence of mastery.