From a younger age, Morgan Collier knew she wished to handle folks. That zeal led her to incomes a nursing diploma. After spending time caring for sufferers in a trauma setting, Morgan moved on to precision medication.
Based on the Nationwide Library of Drugs, precision medication is “an rising strategy for illness remedy and prevention that takes into consideration particular person variability in genes, atmosphere, and way of life for every particular person.”
Whereas at a precision medication follow, Morgan acquired a scholarship to assist her additional research this discipline. That’s when her love of genetics started.
“I lastly had a imaginative and prescient for a way I may mix my love for the physique’s metabolic perform with well being and with caring for others,” she stated. “After finishing my Grasp’s training as a household nurse practitioner, I utilized to work at Akron Youngsters’s as a metabolic and genetics nurse practitioner. It has been the very best end result for all my training and coaching! I’m so overjoyed to share with others that I really LOVE my job!”
In a primarily male-dominated discipline like genetics, Morgan is exclusive.
“Ladies ought to really feel empowered to enter the sphere of genetics. Particularly feminine nurse practitioners,” she stated. “The general variety of suppliers selecting fellowships in genetics and metabolic is declining. There’s a calling for advance follow suppliers within the discipline of genetics and lots of specialty practices. I imagine that as a feminine on this follow, it’s my aim to information different girls to the fascinating follow of genetics. We’ve the facility and should be on the forefront of medical genetics developments.”
As a household nurse practitioner within the Genetic Middle and NeuroDevelopmental Science Middle, Morgan sees sufferers with metabolic, mitochondrial, or developmental genetics points.
“When any youngster is born, they obtain a take a look at often known as a new child screening. Sometimes, new child screening entails a easy blood take a look at, normally collected by pricking the child’s heel shortly after delivery,” Morgan defined. “The blood pattern is analyzed in a laboratory to test for sure genetic, metabolic, and hormonal issues. The aim is to detect these situations early, usually earlier than signs seem, in order that acceptable interventions might be initiated to forestall or reduce the impression on the kid’s well being.”
If a baby’s new child screening is constructive, different exams are carried out. Then, remedies like dietary modifications, treatment, or specialised medical care, can considerably enhance somebody’s end result, she stated.
Morgan works collaboratively with different Akron Youngsters’s suppliers and specialties to assist sufferers and their households who’ve metabolic genetic issues, mitochondrial issues and mental or developmental delays.
Morgan Collier receives her Doctorate of Nursing diploma.
“The American Faculty of Pediatrics states that 30-40% of those sufferers with an mental or developmental delay are estimated to have an underlying genetic trigger. Households usually obtain a referral to genetics from developmental pediatrics or their major care supplier,” she stated.
The resiliency of children is a part of why Morgan loves her job.
“Their capability to beat difficult metabolic issues is superb,” she stated. “I additionally get pleasure from with the ability to come to work and play princess or superman, shade, or speak about faculty sports activities or extracurriculars. I’m a child at coronary heart, so play is essential in my follow.”
Morgan additionally sees adults with metabolic, genetic or mitochondrial wants.
“There are so few metabolic genetic facilities within the nation that Akron Youngsters’s permits sufferers to be adopted by maturity. This vastly improves continuity of care and transition from adolescence to younger maturity,” she stated.
When a affected person household involves see her, Morgan needs them to know that:
- It’s okay when you don’t know your full household medical historical past.
- Should you or your youngster require weekly monitoring, you’ll be in very shut contact with Morgan and different Akron Youngsters’s suppliers if needed.
- At your first go to, you’ll speak about household well being historical past, you or your youngster’s well being historical past, you or your youngster’s delivery historical past, ongoing issues, and assessment of signs.
- She is going to inform you in regards to the type of genetic exams provided at Akron Youngsters’s and collectively you’ll resolve what the most suitable choice is for you.
“I do my greatest to deal with all my sufferers as in the event that they had been certainly one of my family members,” Morgan stated. “We take a crew strategy in genetics, collaborating with genetic counselors, dietitians and geneticists, and we would like our sufferers to really feel that they’re part of one large household. I by no means need a household to really feel alone within the technique of genetic testing or treating their youngster’s genetic situation. Genetics might be complicated, so I do my greatest to be accessible through MyChart message or cellphone name for questions or issues.”
Morgan not too long ago accomplished her Physician of Nursing. When she’s not working with affected person households, she enjoys spending time along with her accomplice mountaineering, touring, figuring out (she’s a aggressive bodybuilder) and taking part in along with her canine Ollie and Zoe.
To make an appointment with Morgan, name the Genetic Middle at 330-543-8792.
