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✅ Constructing a family pedigree of three or more generations

🧬 Nurses trained in genetics often assist in collecting detailed family histories, including medical conditions, genetic patterns, and inheritance trends.

🧬 A three-generation pedigree helps identify potential hereditary risks and is a foundational tool in genetic counseling and risk assessment.

🧬 It includes data on birth defects, chronic diseases, miscarriages, and consanguinity, and is essential in planning screening or referrals to specialists.

✅ Assessing the responses of family members to a genetic disorder

💬 Nurses play a vital role in assessing psychosocial, emotional, and cultural reactions of clients and families dealing with genetic diagnoses.

💬 They support families coping with grief, uncertainty, decision-making, and stigma related to genetic conditions.

💬 This includes assessing adjustment, comprehension, coping mechanisms, and readiness to receive information or make healthcare choices.

✅ Offering parents information about genetics

📘 A key role of nurses in genetics is to provide accurate, understandable information about genetic inheritance, testing options, and possible outcomes.

📘 They help parents make informed decisions by explaining concepts like dominant/recessive inheritance, carrier status, and screening limitations.

📘 Nurses also provide resources, support, and referrals to genetic counselors or specialists as needed.