The student nurse has been reading about the Human Genome Project and asks the nursing instructor how this will impact future pharmacological therapies. What is the best response by the instructor?
1. "We will be able to alter genes so we will not need drugs."
2. "We will be able to standardize drug doses to make prescribing easier."
3. "It will help prevent disease through gene manipulation but will not impact drugs."
4. "It will help to individualize drug therapy for people in a more effective way."
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Rationale 1: Altering genes to prevent illness is a possibility, but we will always need medications.
Rationale 2: Individuals will still respond differently to medications; not all drugs will have standardized doses.
Rationale 3: Medications will be very much impacted by this research.
Rationale 4: The goal of pharmacogenetics is to help individualize drug therapy for people in a more effective way.
Global Rationale: The goal of pharmacogenetics is to help individualize drug therapy for people in a more effective way. Altering genes to prevent illness is a possibility, but we will always need medications. Individuals will still respond differently to medications; not all drugs will have standardized doses. Medications will be very much impacted by this research.
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