The Development of Education of Public Health Nurses for Applying Genomics in Preventive Health Care

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Abstract

Genetics and genomics have become one of the most important development areas in healthcare. For this reason, it is essential that nursing professionals take their role to offer their skills in implementing genomics in health promotion. The education of public health nurses is taking vital steps in training the health promoters who are able to take the genome-based knowledge into account in precision healthcare. Tampere University of Applied Sciences managed to integrate genomics into the studies of public health nursing. This article describes the process of development and lays emphasis on the importance of genomic education of public health nurses.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)849232
JournalFrontiers in Genetics
Volume13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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