Genetics

Competency
Describe the principles of genetics and genomics.

Scenario
As you work with your preceptor, you learn that she is planning a training session for all new nurses to familiarize them with principles of genetics and genomics using data from a three-generation family pedigree. She asks your help in building a pedigree and genogram to reflect inherited genetic disease processes. You agree to do some reading and describe a genetic disorder and provide a genogram that would indicate how this disorder is transferred over generations. Your preceptor asks you to pick one from this list:

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Hemochromatosis
Neurofibromatosis
Turner Syndrome
Von Willebrand Disease

Instructions
After you pick one, create a brief 3-slide presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint® and a free recording software compatible with PC and MAC computers, Screencast -O-Matic©. Follow these instructions to download and use this software to create your presentation.