Title I: Profession of nurse

Nurses draw up a nursing care record for each patient, containing all relevant and up-to-date information relating to the patient’s care and follow-up. Nurses, whatever their mode of practice, shall ensure that the nursing care record is protected against any indiscretion. When they use computerised procedures, they take all measures within their power to ensure that these data are protected.

Nurses in charge of any coordinating or supervisory function must ensure that the actions performed by the persons whose activities they coordinate or supervise, whether nurses, care assistants, nursery nurses, medical-psychological assistants, nursing students or any other person placed under their responsibility, are carried out correctly. They are responsible for the actions they perform in collaboration with the professionals they supervise. They ensure that the people who assist them are…

Nurses respect and ensure respect for the rules of hygiene in their person, in the administration of care, in the use of equipment and in the maintenance of professional premises. They ensure that the waste resulting from their professional activities is properly managed, in accordance with regulatory procedures.

The nurse checks that the medicine, product or medical device dispensed complies with the prescription. They also check the dosage and expiry date. They follow the instructions for use for any medical devices they use.

Nurses take every precaution in their power to prevent unauthorised persons from gaining access to the medicines and products they are required to use in the course of their professional practice.

The nurse suggests consulting a doctor or any other competent professional when he or she considers it necessary.

The nurse communicates to the doctor any information in his possession likely to contribute to the establishment of the diagnosis, as well as to allow the best adaptation of the treatment or care.

Nurses apply and respect medical prescriptions which, except in emergencies, are written, quantitative and qualitative, dated and signed. They ask the prescriber for further information whenever they consider it useful, particularly if they feel they have not been adequately informed. If the nurse has any doubts about the prescription, he checks it with the prescriber or, if this is not possible, with another member of the profession concerned. If it…

The nurse applies and complies with the protocols drawn up by the doctor in accordance with the provisions of articles R. 4311-7 and R. 4311-14. Whenever they consider it essential, nurses ask the doctor in charge to draw up a written, dated and signed protocol. In the event of the implementation of a written protocol of emergency care, or of protective acts performed until the intervention of a doctor, the…

When nurses take part in public information activities of an educational, scientific or health nature, whatever the means of dissemination, they only use confirmed data, exercise caution and are concerned about the repercussions of their comments on the public. They do not intend to profit from their contribution in the context of their professional activity, nor to benefit the organisations in which they work or to which they lend their…