Title I: Profession of nurse

The practice of the nursing profession involves analysing, organising, carrying out and evaluating nursing care, contributing to the collection of clinical and epidemiological data and participating in prevention, screening, training and health education activities. In all these activities, nurses are bound by professional rules, in particular professional secrecy. They work in conjunction with other professionals in the health, social, medico-social and educational sectors.

Nursing care, whether preventive, curative or palliative, integrates technical quality with the quality of the relationship with the patient. It is carried out in the light of scientific and technical developments. Their purpose, while respecting the rights of the individual, with a view to his or her health education and taking account of the individual’s personality in its physiological, psychological, economic, social and cultural components, is as follows 1° To…

The nurse’s own role includes care related to the maintenance and continuity of life and aimed at partially or totally compensating for a lack or reduction in the autonomy of a person or group of people. Within this framework, the nurse is competent to take the initiatives and carry out the care he or she deems necessary in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 4311-5, R. 4311-5-1 and R….

When the acts performed and the care given within the scope of their own role are provided in a home health, social or medico-social establishment or service, the nurse may, under their responsibility, perform them with the collaboration of care assistants, nursery nurses or educational and social support staff whom they supervise and within the respective limits of the qualifications recognised for each by virtue of their training. This collaboration…

Within the framework of their own role, nurses carry out the following acts or provide the following care aimed at identifying risks and ensuring the comfort and safety of the person and his/her environment, and including informing the person and those around him/her: 1° Care and procedures to ensure the hygiene of the person and his/her environment; 2° Monitoring hygiene and dietary balance; 3° Screening and assessment of risks of…

I.-The nurse may prescribe, under the conditions defined in article R. 4311-3, the vaccines mentioned in the order provided for by 1° of article L. 4311-1 to persons whose age conditions and, where applicable, pathologies are specified by this same order. The nurse declares the activity of prescribing vaccines, by any means that provides a date certain on receipt of the declaration, to the competent authority of the council of…

In the field of mental health, in addition to the acts and care mentioned in Article R. 4311-5, the nurse performs the following acts and care: 1° Intake interviews with patients and their families ; 2° Individual or group sociotherapeutic activities; 3° Supervision of patients in isolation rooms; 4° Monitoring and evaluating therapeutic commitments involving the doctor, nurse and patient.

The nurse is authorised to perform the following acts either in application of a medical prescription or its renewal by a nurse in advanced practice under the conditions provided for in article R. 4301-3 which, except in emergencies, is written, qualitative and quantitative, dated and signed, or in application of a written protocol, qualitative and quantitative, drawn up in advance, dated and signed by a doctor: 1° Scarifications, injections and…

The nurse is authorised to initiate and adapt analgesic treatments, within the framework of pre-established protocols, written, dated and signed by a doctor. The protocol is included in the nursing care file.

The nurse is authorised to carry out the following procedures and care on the basis of a written, qualitative and quantitative, dated and signed medical prescription, provided that a doctor can intervene at any time: 1° Injections and infusions of products of human origin requiring, prior to their performance, when the product so requires, a compulsory identity and compatibility check carried out by the nurse ; 2° Injections of medicinal…