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Introduction
Genomics provides a static and overall view of an organism’s genetic material (Topol, 2014) while genetics is related to specific gene’s structure as contained in the cell, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms (Borovska, 2017). Therefore, genetics/genomics should be an integral part of nursing practice because essentially all diseases and conditions have a genetic or genomic component (Consensus Panel on Genetic/Genomic Nursing Competencies (2009). Genetic disorders occur in 2%-5% of all live births with Sickle Cell Diseases as the most common severe genetic disorder (Adeyemo et al., 2018 & Ogamba et al., 2018). Its low prevalence could result from underreporting, the poor standard of healthcare facilities and ill-equipped healthcare personnel including nurses (Ogamba et al., 2018). Inadequate nurses’ knowledge of genomics has led to insufficient patient’ education (Camak, 2016), they could not help in identifying health risks that correlate with genomic factors (Donnelly et al., 2017) and were not conversant with screening tests and healthcare coordination for individuals and family’s genomic issues (Bashore et al., 2018). This provides the premise for this study