3. Where will you encounter genetics in your practice?

A significant part of the midwife’s role is recognising potential concerns, including recognition of families with, or with a potential to have, a genetic condition. As a midwife, you form good working relationships with women and their families and have unique opportunities to assist women and help them achieve the best outcome from their pregnancy.

As face-to-face time with women is limited, your skills of questioning and listening, together with a good working knowledge of genetics and genomics, will enable you to accurately assess families and be alerted to the possible presence of a genetic condition.

Once alerted to a potential genetic problem or risk, it is your responsibility to take appropriate action.

You may encounter genetics in your practice when caring for women in the antenatal, delivery or postnatal periods.

Question: When would you suspect that there could be a link to a genetic problem or a need for midwives to have knowledge of genomics? Select ALL of the following options that you believe to be correct.





 

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