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 protect, maintain, restore and promote the physical and mental health of individuals or the autonomy of their vital physical and mental functions, with a view to encouraging them to remain in, integrate into or reintegrate into their family or social environment;
2° Contributing to the establishment of methods and the gathering of information useful to other professionals, particularly doctors, in making their diagnoses and evaluating the effect of their prescriptions;
3° Participating in the assessment of the degree of dependency of persons;
4° Contributing to the implementation of treatments by participating in clinical monitoring and the application of medical prescriptions contained, where applicable, in protocols drawn up on the initiative of the prescribing doctor(s);
5° Participating in the prevention, assessment and relief of pain and the physical and psychological distress of people, particularly at the end of life, by means of palliative care, and providing support to their families and friends as required.