ONS member Patricia Friend, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCNS®, AGN-BC, associate professor and program director for the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing at Loyola University in Chicago, IL, joins ONS’s Erin Dickman, MS, RN, OCN®, to discuss the different applications of genetics and genomics, what oncology nurses need to know about genomics, and much more.

Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Episode Notes:

Check out these resources from today’s episode:

• The NCPD activity for this episode has expired, but you can still earn NCPD through many other Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes. Find a full list of opportunities.
• ONS It’s in the Genes: Understanding Genetics and Genomics in Oncology webinar
• Testing in the Era of Precision Oncology
• Learn Genetics – University of Utah
• Precision Medicine for Your Practice – Jackson Laboratory
• Public Health Genomics Knowledge Base – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention