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Nowadays science of genetics has grown rapidly especially in the field of health. This condition makes all health care providers must be prepared to follow these developments in order to provide better service to clients. Nurses as one part of the health services, are also required to be able to apply these genetics into nursing services to their clients. But in reality, based on a survey conducted in 2013 about knowledge and readiness of nursing students and clinical nurses to genetics shows the results that their knowledge are still lacking. Therefore, it is necessary to provide effective courses to increase knowledge of nursing students and clinical nurses about genetics. The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of genetic course that has been given to nursing students and clinical nurses. The study involved two groups of respondents that are comprised of a group of nursing students and clinical nurses group. Each group consisted of 30 members of the group. Each group received genetic course for 36 hours taken within 6 days. The level of knowledge about genetics is measured before and after course using a questionnaire that has been developed by Maradigue in 2005. The results of this study showed significant changes in knowledge before and after the implementation of the course among nursing students with p = 0,000. Similarly, the clinical nurses group also showed significant changes in the knowledge with p = 0.000. However, changes in the knowledge of the two treatment groups was also significantly different, with increased knowledge of nursing students better than the improvement of knowledge clinical nurses (p = 0.033). This study showed that nursing students or nurses will have better understanding about genetics if they were introduced from the beginning.
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