title: An update on MS Nurse PROfessional, an ongoing project of the European Multiple Sclerosis Platform.
abstract: Within the multidisciplinary team required to manage people with multiple sclerosis (MS) effectively, the nurse is the central component of coordinated care and support. A 2009 survey led by the European Multiple Sclerosis Platform, an umbrella organization of national MS associations, identified variance and disparity across Europe in the nursing care of MS patients. This led to development of MS Nurse PROfessional, a continuing medical education-accredited modular online learning program endorsed and approved by leading international nursing and professional groups, and people with MS, as a tool to support the evolving role of the European MS nurse. Analysis of participant experience and nurse practice to date has been overwhelmingly positive. Expansion of MS Nurse PRO is underway or planned for future.
authors.affiliation: EMSP President, EMSP aisbl, Rue Auguste Lambiotte 144, 1030 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Winslow
mesh_terms: D020375:Education, Distance / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000451:nursing*; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012956:Societies, Nursing
keywords: learning needs assessment; multiple sclerosis; nurse education; web-based learning