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Article R4312-86 of the French Public Health Code

The replacement nurse who is not installed shall carry out the replacement at the place of professional practice of the replaced nurse and under his own responsibility. The replacement private practice nurse may, if the replaced nurse agrees, see patients in his or her own practice.

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Article R4312-87 of the French Public Health Code

Once he has completed his assignment and ensured continuity of care, the replacement nurse gives up all his replacement activities with the clientele of the replaced nurse. A nurse who replaces one of his colleagues for a period of more than three months, consecutive or otherwise, must not, for a period of two years, set up in a practice where he may enter into direct competition with the colleague replaced…

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Article R4312-88 of the French Public Health Code

Nurses may enlist the help of one or more self-employed colleagues, under the conditions set out inarticle 18 of law no. 2005-882 of 2 August 2005 in favour of small and medium-sized enterprises. Each of them carries out his activity in complete independence, without any link of subordination, and in compliance with the rules of the profession, in particular the free choice of the nurse by the patients, the prohibition…

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Article R4312-89 of the French Public Health Code

Any nurse who changes his or her conditions of practice, including his or her professional address, or ceases to practise, is required to notify the departmental council without delay. The latter takes note of these changes and informs the national council.

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Article R4312-91 of the French Public Health Code

All decisions taken by the College of Nurses in application of this Code of Deontology shall state the reasons on which they are based. The decisions of the departmental councils may be amended or annulled by the national council of the order, either ex officio or at the request of the parties concerned. In the latter case, the appeal must be lodged within two months of notification of the decision….

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Article R4321-1 of the French Public Health Code

Physiotherapy consists of manual or instrumental procedures, particularly for re-education purposes, the aim of which is to prevent the deterioration of functional capacities, to help maintain them and, when they are impaired, to restore or compensate for them. They are adapted to scientific and technical developments.

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Article R4321-2 of the French Public Health Code

In carrying out their activity, physiotherapists take account of the psychological, social, economic and cultural characteristics of each patient, at all stages of life. The masseur-physiotherapist communicates to the doctor any information in his possession likely to be useful in establishing the medical diagnosis or adapting the treatment according to the person’s state of health and its evolution. As part of the medical prescription, the physiotherapist draws up a report…

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Article R4321-3 of the French Public Health Code

Massage is any external manoeuvre performed on tissues, with or without a therapeutic aim, either manually or by means of equipment other than electrotherapy equipment, with or without the use of products, which involves methodical, mechanical or reflex mobilisation or stimulation of these tissues.

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