Assessing genomics confidence and learning needs in Australian nurses and midwives: an educational program evaluation.

Front Genet

Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Published: July 2024

The mainstreaming of genomics across healthcare specialties necessitates that all nurses and midwives have a high literacy in genomics. We aimed to design, develop, implement and evaluate a genomics education workshop for nurses and midwives using action research principles. Registered nurses and midwives completed an online survey regarding genomics confidence and learning needs (n = 274). The results of this survey were used to develop the genomics education workshop. The workshop was run three times (n = 105) with evaluation data being collected both before and after each workshop. Significant improvements in confidence across all learning domains was found following the workshops ( < 0.001). A desire for more education across all learning domains except for genetics knowledge was also identified ( < 0.001). Genomics education workshops were found to increase the confidence of nurses and midwives across a range of specialties. Nurses and midwives also expressed a desire for further education in genomics.

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