Understanding the role genetics plays in health care provides the means to integrate such information into diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of many common diseases.
Dr. Lashley’s book is a comprehensive overview of genetics and provides nurses and other health care professionals with information on how to assess, diagnose, manage, and educate individuals with genetic conditions and their families. “Nurses play a variety of roles in aiding the clients and their families affected by genetically determined health conditions,” said Lashley. “As they assist their clients, nurses must be able to understand the implications of human genetic variations and gene-environment interaction, and overt genetic disease and how they affect patients and families in regard to disease and prevention.”
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Dean Olson with Dr. Felissa Lashley
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Felissa R. Lashley earned her M.A. in medical-surgical nursing from New York University and her B.S. in nursing from Adelphi College. Previous to her appointment at Rutgers, she was dean and professor at Southern Illinois University’s School of Nursing and clinical professor of pediatrics at the University’s School of Medicine. An AIDS Certified Registered Nurse, Lashley was the first nurse to be a member of the AIDS standing research committee of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and is director of the Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious Diseases Preparedness at Rutgers. She has authored more than 250 publications and has received numerous awards including an Exxon Education Foundation Innovation award for her paper on integrating genetics into community college nursing education in 1996.