What must nurses understand to meet the challenges of personalized medicine?
A) That personalized medicine is holistic
B) The collaboration necessary in genomic medicine
C) The ethnic basis for genomic medicine
D) The new technologies and treatments
Ans: D
Feedback: To meet the challenges of personalized medicine, nurses must understand the new technologies and treatments of genetic- and genomic-based health care. The other answers are incorrect because the nursing care in personalized medicine is holistic, not personalized medicine itself.
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