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DNP-810 Topic 3 DQ 2 Why is it important to have a comprehensive health and physical assessment that includes information on environment and genomic influences?
DNP-810 Topic 3 DQ 2 Why is it important to have a comprehensive health and physical assessment that includes information on environment and genomic influences?
Topic 3 DQ 2
Jun 23-27, 2022
Why is it important to have a comprehensive health and physical assessment that includes information on environment and genomic influences? How can the doctoral-prepared nurse apply this information in practice? Explain. Support your rationale with a minimum of two scholarly sources.
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Tommie Wood
Jul 8, 2022, 7:04 PM
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Comprehensive health and thorough physical assessment including environmental and genomic factors are crucial to providing individualized treatment for patients. Precision health is explained as using information from patients including lifestyle, social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors help doctoral-prepared nurses to practice in a holistic manner. (Conley, et al., 2019)In today’s changing demographics, this information is more relevant than ever. In my practice of working with vulnerable populations, the awareness of factors regarding social determinants is imperative. Knowledge of chronic illnesses and how to treat them medically is only a portion of the responsibility of an advanced practice nurse. (Conley, et al., 2019)
Nurses are at the forefront and are important in moving precision medicine to the frontline. One of the primary goals of precision medicine/health is to improve diagnosis and personalized treatment for patients. Using tools such as the My family health portrait, is a benefit in getting the conversation started. Family health history provides information on specific diseases common in families, shared genes, and environmental and behavioral factors. (MFHP, nd). This is beneficial in establishing a family history of renal disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. (MFHP, nd).
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Amanda Clark
Jun 29, 2022, 2:41 PM
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CAT: What additional questions do you have from this weeks content?
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Jennifer Murillo
Jun 27, 2022, 11:45 PM
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Once genetic alterations have been made, one’s genes can induce different responses compared to other individuals. As a result, some people may develop a disease after exposure to something in the environment, while others may not. Epigenetic alterations can be elicited through environmental factors significantly augmenting the relationship between DNA and proteins (Ayorech et al., 2019). Your genes hold the basic instructions for your body to grow and function, but they are far from the only thing controlling your traits. Most traits are shaped both by a person’s genes and by environmental factors. Environmental factors include everything outside of DNA that affects your traits (Ayorech et al., 2019).
A DNP-prepared nurse can use the information to educate their patients on how genes, via their influences on morphology and physiology, create a framework within which the environment shapes an individual’s behavior. The environment can affect morphological and physiological development; behavior develops due to that patient’s shape and internal workings (Ludeke et al., 2021). In addition, genetics influence a child’s well-being by setting the limits of growth, development, and health potential that could lead to a child’s insecurity about some aspects about their self, but with the right lifestyle factors, for example, physical activity, can lead to a lavish lifestyle with a child’s well-being (Ludeke et al., 2021). Furthermore, genes can interact with other genes and the environment. Some genes may dominate and prevent others from being expressed. In other cases, specific biological influences might impact genetic expression. An example of biological influence over gene expression is a child not getting proper nutrition (Ludeke et al., 2021). In addition, the environment a child is exposed to both in utero and throughout the rest of their life can also impact how genes are expressed. For example, exposure to harmful drugs while in utero can dramatically impact later child development (Ludeke et al., 2021).
References
Ayorech, Z., Plomin, R., & von Stumm, S. (2019). Using DNA to predict educational trajectories in early adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 55(5), 1088.
Ludeke, S. G., Gensowski, M., Junge, S. Y., Kirkpatrick, R. M., John, O. P., & Andersen, S. C. (2021). Does parental education influence child educational outcomes? A developmental analysis in a full-population sample and adoptee design. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(4).
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Amanda Clark
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Jun 28, 2022, 5:26 PM
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Hi Jennifer,
I liked reading your discussion. You brought up some great points here with how the DNP prepared nurse can use this information for educational purposes and guidance .
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Margaret Mbachu
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Jun 28, 2022, 9:35 PM
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Thanks, Jennifer for your post.
Understanding the part that environment play in family health history helps practitioners to educate and understand the etiology of disease conditions.
For example, Sickle cell disease is mainly seen in Africa, and Basal cell carcinoma is mainly seen in fair skin due to sun exposure and lack of Melanin, some disease conditions are related to work that we do, like the Asbestos, and long time exposure to radiation for the radiologist and their technician. It will also assist practitioners to protect at-risk individuals and those with poor access to health care.
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Carolyn Smith
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Jun 29, 2022, 10:00 AM
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Hello Jennifer,
It is true that environment can trigger genetic alternations. Therefore, some people may be exposed to certain healthcare complications due to their environment. Comprehensive health and physical assessment allows healthcare providers to obtain adequate information on diseases. Information on environment and genomic influences increase the accuracy of medical intervention. Epigenetic alterations are common genetic reactions to environmental influence (Reiter-Brennan et al., 2021). Unfortunately, limited information on the impact of environment on genetic alternations challenges nurses from handling epigenetic alterations and other
related complications. A DNP-prepared nurse uses information from a comprehensive health and physical assessment to educate their patients (Strohschein et al., 2020). Most patients have limited information on the impact of their environment on genes. As a result, most patients expose themselves to hazardous environmental conditions unknowingly. Therefore, DNP-prepared nurses become critical players in educating and sensitizing their patients.
References
Reiter-Brennan, C., Dzaye, O., Davis, D., Blaha, M., & Eckel, R. H. (2021). Comprehensive care models for cardiometabolic disease. Current Cardiology Reports, 23(3), 1-11.
Strohschein, F. J., Allison Loucks, R. N., Rana Jin, R. N., & Brandy Vanderbyl, R. N. (2020). Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment. Clinical journal of oncology nursing, 24(5), 514-525. DOI:10.1188/20.CJON.514-525
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