[Accompanying teams to decipher and manage emotions in certain care situations]. / Accompagner les équipes pour décrypter et gérer les émotions dans certaines situations de soins.

Caring for others means being confronted with situations that arouse emotions. To provide the right care, the caregiver must be able to manage them, whether they are positive or negative. To support caregivers, the health executive plays a fundamental role and must be able to propose actions to facilitate the management of emotions within the team as well as towards patients and their relatives.

[Student tutoring, an essential part of nursing practice]. / Le tutorat des étudiants, un acte essentiel de la pratique infirmière.

Tutoring nursing students in the field requires a strong involvement from the staff, tutors and supervisors. Tutoring is a real educational follow-up by peers, in collaboration with the training managers, and is also a sharing of experience with the students. Story of nurses highly committed to this function in an orthopaedic surgery department.

[Pathologies of the spine]. / Les pathologies du rachis.

Spinal pathology is a major public health problem. It is sometimes referred to as the "disease of the century" due to the increasing number of people affected. It can be low back pain or neck pain, but whatever the mechanism and the age of the patient, its consequences on the quality of life are undeniable. In the case of scoliosis, which can cause an alteration in body image in young patients, treatment requires, in addition to possible surgery, long-term support.

[Caregiving expertise and hospital management of the spinal surgery patient]. / Expertises soignantes et prise en charge hospitalière du patient opéré du rachis.

The care of spinal surgery patients requires the paramedical team to have precise, varied and adapted knowledge, whether it is a question of mobilization, nutrition, specific monitoring and the prevention of complications. The nurse - nursing assistant pair expresses all its know-how in the care of patients operated on a spine. Supporting the return to autonomy is a priority, especially for young patients who have undergone scoliosis surgery.

[The nurse and postoperative monitoring in spinal surgery]. / L'infirmière et les surveillances postopératoires en chirurgie rachidienne.

As after any surgical procedure, the spinal patient is transferred to the postoperative surveillance room. There, a nurse will closely monitor the patient's vital parameters. Particular vigilance is deployed to identify possible complications related to the operation, some of which are specific to scoliosis. The management of postoperative pain is also at the heart of the care.

[Testimony of a young patient operated on for scoliosis]. / Témoignage d'une jeune patiente opérée d'une scoliose.

A young woman, 25 years old, who had scoliosis surgery, agreed to tell her story of her life and care from the time she was diagnosed with scoliosis as a child to the post-operative period. We will call her Sabrina.

[Pain induced during care, what non-drug treatment in post-stroke?] / Douleur induite lors des soins, quelle prise en charge non médicamenteuse en post-AVC ?

At the neuro-vascular emergencies unit at the Pitié-Salpêtrière (AP-HP,Paris), a population that is mostly elderly and dependent is cared for daily by caregivers. With an average age of stroke of 74 years, these patients regularly suffer from neuropathic pain in post-stroke situations. Caregivers are very vigilant in preventing pain induced during care, particularly during mobilization, and are developing holistic pain management that includes non-drug approaches.

[Nursing research and the Hospital Programme for Nursing and Allied Health Research]. / Recherche infirmière et PHRIP, retour d'expérience.

Nursing research is perceived as a way of improving quality of care. As is the case in Britain and Switzerland, this ambitious activity is developing in France, favoured by the raising of nursing studies to university level and boosted by funding from the French ministry of health. A nursing team at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, in Paris, share their enthusiasm for this new approach.