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Case study; Information and communication technologies (ICTs) used in the health sector have well-known advantages. They can promote patient-centered healthcare, improve quality of care, and educate health professionals and patients. However, implementation of ICTs remains difficult and involves changes at different levels: patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare organizations. Nurses constitute the largest health provider group of the healthcare workforce.
1. Provide the most recent definition on nursing informatics;
2. What are the three categories upon which nursing informatics are determined on?
3. What do nursing informatics investigate? State all four
4. Does every gene mutation cause an alteration in the protein the gene normally codifies?
5. How do genetic mutations influence biological diversity?
6. What are mutagenic agents?
7. How are mutagenic agents related to the incidence of cancer in a population? Is cancer a disease transmitted to the offspring of an individual?
8. How do the repairing enzymes of the genetic system act?
9. What are some diseases or genetic abnormalities caused by recessive genes?
10. What are some diseases or genetic abnormalities caused by dominant genes? Why are severe dominant genetic diseases rarer than recessive ones?
11. What is consanguineous marriage? Why is the appearance of genetic disease more probable in the offspring of a consanguineous marriage?
12. How is the early diagnosis of genetic diseases usually done?