title: Nursing and Biobanking.
abstract: Nurses are a pivotal component of the translational research movement and apply scientific discoveries to the healthcare and clinical practice fields. Biobanking is also an important factor in furthering translational research by providing biospecimens and related clinical data to the research community. The effectiveness of any biobanking effort necessitates the enrollment of large numbers of diverse participants, which signifies a need for the nursing profession to secure the knowledge necessary to impact biobanking practices and to promote participant advocacy. In addition, biobanks provide the volume, variety, veracity, and velocity of data that can address the challenges of nursing research. Nurse scientists, research nurse coordinators and clinical research and practice nurses must be informed about the various benefits and risks associated with biobanking in addition to ethical issues surrounding informed consent, participant privacy, and the release of research results. Ultimately, nurses need to possess competencies to facilitate biobanking practices both at the research bench and at the point of care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Systems, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, 6901 Bertner Avenue Suite 612, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. Jennifer.E.Sanner@uth.tmc.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sanner
authors.affiliation: Clinical Acute and Continuing Care, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, Houston, TX, USA. Erica.Yu@uth.tmc.edu.
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: CCTS Biobank Program Coordinator of Nursing Systems, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, Houston, TX, USA. Krystle.J.Nomie@uth.tmc.edu.
authors.forename: Krystle
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nomie
mesh_terms: D018070:Biological Specimen Banks / Q000941:ethics; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015399:Nursing Research; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical
keywords: Biobanking; Ethics; Genetics and genomics; Informed consent; Nursing competencies; Nursing practice