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. 4311-6. He/she identifies the needs of the person, makes a nursing diagnosis, formulates care objectives, implements the appropriate actions and evaluates them. He may, with the participation of the members of the nursing team, draw up nursing care protocols on his own initiative. He/she is responsible for the design, use and management of the nursing care file.