Creation of a “Nurse consultation”prescription right, news “Missions” : The deputies approved unanimously, during the night of Monday, March 10 to Tuesday, March 11, a bill aimed at renovating the profession of nurse, expected for almost two years by the profession.
The text, examined at first reading, must allow “Concretis[er] in the law the redesign of the profession “ Of the 640,000 nurses, said the Minister of Health, Yannick Neuder.
Its article 1 redefines the missions of nurses, supervised since 2004 by a decree which is “Little in tune today” With the reality of the profession, according to the rapporteur, the deputy for Maine-et-Loire Nicole Dubré-Chirat (Renaissance).
Faced with medical desertification, nurses have been delegated, in recent years, more and more medical tasks (vaccination, realization of death certificates, followed by chronic patients for nurses in advanced practice, etc.).
“It is time to trust these health professionals and to say loud and clear that they are essential in the management of the French”pleaded the deputy of Seine-et-Marne and president of the Social Affairs Committee Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons).
“Socles Missions”
The bill list “Socles Missions” : the realization of nursing “Curative, palliative, relational and intended for clinical surveillance”monitoring the patient’s health journey and their ” orientation “,, “Prevention”including screening and therapeutic education, “Participation in training” peers and research.
Evolution expected, but highly criticized by doctors’ unions, the text creates the “Nurse consultation” and the notion of “Nursing diagnosis”terms usually reserved for medical professions. He gives nurses the authorization of “Prescribing” Certain products whose list will be defined by decree.
New fields of practice are also offered to nurses in advanced practice (IPA): maternal and child protection services (PMI), school health and childhood assistance.
Criticized by the left as by the extreme right
While some are worried that the law aims at “Pallor the lack of doctors”this is not a question of nurses of“Emplate on [leur] field of skills “but to act “In complementarity” With them, according to the rapporteur.
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Consensual, the text was nevertheless criticized by the left as by the extreme right, which notably asked for progress for the remuneration and the training of nurses.
The deputies approved by a very large majority of the amendments of the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône Hendrik Davi (ecologist) and the deputy of Sarthe Elise Leboucher (rebellious France) requesting the opening of a negotiation on the remuneration of nurses during the publication and updating of the decree fixing the list of acts and care that they carry out.
In conclusion of the debates, Yannick Neuder hoped that the text could be quickly voted in the Senate, then definitively in the two chambers, for “Then trigger (…) Conventional negotiations from September ”.