Key competencies for Korean nurses in prenatal genetic nursing: experiential genetic nursing knowledge, and ethics and law

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims at determining the competencies of Korean nurses in prenatal genetic nursing. Methods: First, a 3-round Delphi survey was conducted to establish prenatal genetic nursing competencies. Second, a prenatal genetic nursing education program (PGNEP), incorporating the findings from the Delphi survey, was designed. Third, a single group pre- and post-quasi-experimental study at a PGNEP workshop was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the integration of the competencies into the PGNEP with the measurements of knowledge about prenatal genetic testing and nursing (K-PGTN) and information needs about prenatal genetic testing and nursing (I-PGTN). Finally, the identified competencies were reexamined for their clarity.Results: Based on the Delphi survey 78 competency components were identified. The components were then classified under 10 categories, which were organized under 4 domains. The domain of ‘experiential genetic nursing knowledge’ and the domain of ‘ethics and law’ were ranked as the first and the second in significance. The quasi-experimental study showed that the mean scores in K-PGTN were significantly increased from 8.19 ± 2.67 to 11.25 ± 2.51 (P=<0.001). The mean scores of ‘ethics and law’ in I-PGTN decreased significantly (P= 0.023). The headings of 4 categories and 2 domains were revised. Conclusion: This study identified competencies for prenatal genetic nursing and nursing education in Korea. There is a need for nursing instructors and researchers to improve the competencies of nurses in the identified areas. Particular emphasis should be placed on experiential nursing knowledge and on ethics and law related to prenatal genetic nursing.

Current State of Genomics in Nursing: A Scoping Review of Healthcare Provider Oriented (Clinical and Educational) Outcomes (2012–2022)

“…The GGNPS is a psychometrically evaluated instrument that evaluates nurses' knowledge/competency as well as attitudes/receptivity, confidence, and decision/adoption of genomics in nursing practice [234]. The "other" category included heterogenous topics including development of a mobile pharmacogenomics application [70], results from a workshop on nursing and genomics [142], a Delphi study on genomics and nursing [170], and an educational framework for genomics in nursing [35].…”

“…Overall, the majority of studies (71/126, 56%) examined "knowledge and perceptions" of the relevance of genomics to nursing (Figure 3B). Among practicing nurses, 21 articles examined application of genomics to nursing practice (within inpatient hospitals and ambulatory clinics, palliative care, and public health settings) [49,70,71,84,102,105,131,138,145,151,161,167,183,192,195,197,209,220,229,231,233] and 10 focused on continuing education related to genomics [35,92,95,122,140,142,143,154,170,180]. Six studies centered on educating nursing faculty [36,59,65,74,81,106], and twelve centered on preparatory education of undergraduate (n = 6) [29,67,134,186,193,215] and graduate (n = 6) [98,99,…”

“…A total of 50 articles were classified as relating to nursing practice. The dominant Cochrane sub-domain for nursing practice articles was "knowledge and understanding" (45/50, 90%) [26,35,36,49,50,59,63,64,69,71,81,87,92,93,108,111,113,117,[120][121][122][123]125,127,128,142,143,154,155,165,169,170,172,175,187,201,203,209,[218][219][220][221][222][223][224]. Fewer articles (5/50, 10%) focused on the sub-domain "consultation process" [94,144,151,167,…”

A Cross-sectional Survey and Analysis on Nurses’ Cognition of Health Law Knowledge in Tumor Hospital

“…In recent years, with the development of medical technology, service areas continue to expand, and service objects continue to increase, involving more and more extensive legal issues [1][2][3][4] , more and more complex, medical disputes around the rising trend year by year [5] . Being familiar with medical laws and regulations will help medical workers better protect themselves while doing their jobs .whereas, Nurses have relatively weak cognition of laws and regulations related to medical care.…”

Knowledge levels of fetal rights in Turkish pediatric nurses

“…But this change was not statistically significant (p>0.05). (15) However, current nursing education does not sufficiently prepare nurses for the full range of competencies needed for effective prenatal fetal well-being. (16) In this direction, the purpose of this study was to determine the level of knowledge of pediatric nurses on fetal rights and to form the basis for training programs on fetal rights.…”