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.

The study of genomics, that is, the study of the entire human genome, has developed rapidly, and the obtained data are increasingly used in health promotion, prevention and treatment of diseases (World Health Organization [WHO], 2022). As nurses work daily with patients, they play a vital role in implementation of genome-based information and achievement of the goals of genomics to improve health outcomes of the patients (Calzone, Kirk, et al., 2018a; Whitley et al., 2020). To accomplish these goals, nurses need to acquire new competences. Nurses are required to have skills in collecting information about families' medical history, identifying individuals at risk for diseases and genomic factors underlying drug reactions, helping people to understand informed consent, interpretating genomic test results and carrying out individual interventions using genomic data (Calzone et al., 2010). These skills with acquired knowledge combine

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