Development of a registration system for genetic counsellors and nurses in health-care services in Europe

Milena Paneque; Ramona Moldovan; Christophe Cordier; Clara Serra-Juhé; Irene Feroce; Debby Lambert; Inga Bjørnevoll; Heather Skirton

doi:10.1038/ejhg.2015.234

Development of a registration system for genetic counsellors and nurses in health-care services in Europe

Eur J Hum Genet. 2016 Mar;24(3):312-4. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.234. Epub 2015 Nov 4.

Authors

Milena Paneque^{1

2}, Ramona Moldovan^{2

3}, Christophe Cordier^{2

4}, Clara Serra-Juhé^{2

5

6}, Irene Feroce^{2

7}, Debby Lambert^{2

8}, Inga Bjørnevoll^{2

9}, Heather Skirton^{2

10}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Predictive and Preventive Genetics (CGPP) and UnIGENe, IBMC, i3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
² Genetic Nurse and Counsellor Professional Branch Board, European Board of Medical Genetics, Vienna, Austria.
³ Department of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
⁴ Department of Oncology and Haematology, CHRU Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
⁵ Genetics Unit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra-Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
⁸ National Rare Disease Office, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
⁹ Department of Pathology and Medical Genetics, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
¹⁰ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.

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MeSH terms

Accreditation*
Europe
Genetic Counseling*
Health Services*
Humans
Nurses*
Professional Competence