Standards of Practice

Genomics Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 3rd Edition

Genomics nursing practice and care focuses on the actual and potential impact of genetic and genomic influences on health. These nurses advise and educate clients and families on such influences that might impact their health, identify and manage physiologic responses. The goals of their nursing interventions: to optimize health, reduce health risks, treat disease, and promote wellness. Their research and evidence-based practice also includes interprofessional collegiality and collaboration with other genetics and genomics professionals and other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.

A workgroup of genomics nurse experts, convened by ISONG and ANA, completely updated and expanded the previous edition. With input from nurses nationwide, their revision addressed and incorporated ongoing and anticipated changes in genomics nursing as well as in nursing and health care in general.

The revised scope of genomics nursing practice—the who, what, where, when, why, and how of practice—sets the context for understanding and using the standards: the underlying assumptions, characteristics, environments and settings, education and training requirements, key issues and trends, and ethical and conceptual bases of genomics nursing.

The updated 18 standards frame any evaluation of the outcomes and goals of, and measure the accountabilities for, general graduate-level nurses and advanced practice genomics nurses. 

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