[Integrating sustainable development into initial nursing education]. / Intégrer le développement durable dans la formation initiale infirmière.

The initial nursing training framework offers the opportunity to build a teaching program that will lay the foundations of an eco-citizen care giving practice. With evolving content, and in light of climatic contingencies and the need to adapt to emerging pathologies, these courses must make sustainable development, associated with hygiene and safety, a new professional imperative in the care giving system.

[Microbial ecology, the understanding of the invisible living]. / L'écologie microbienne, pour une appréhension du vivant invisible.

Microorganisms are invisible to the naked eye. Hospital hygiene practices are therefore based on the representation that caregivers have of them. This difficulty can generate irrational behavior and fear of blame. Conversely, a better knowledge of the specificities of this invisible living world favors a rationalization of care practices. To do this, caregivers will be able to appropriate the major concepts of microbiology, particularly microbial ecology.

[The pedagogical approach to pharmacology in nurse training institutes]. / L'approche pédagogique de la pharmacologie en Ifsi.

Seen as daunting and stressful, pharmacology is often rejected by student nurses. This discipline requires and draws on multiple skills. When future nurses realise that their prescribing role goes beyond simple execution, they are able to appreciate the full scope of pharmacology.

[Integrating the concept of sustainable development into initial training]. / Intégrer le concept de développement durable dans la formation initiale.

Healthcare institutions have a considerable impact on the environment. Consequently, ensuring that nursing care adopts a sustainable development approach can be a real pedagogical objective for new and future generations of nurses. The new nursing initial training programme offers this possibility by integrating the concept into teaching units.

[The new nursing curriculum for the benefit of patient education]. / Le nouveau programme des études infirmières au service de l'éducation thérapeutique.

Therapeutic patient education (TPE) imposes a radical change in the nurse-patient relationship. It is a real humanist trend whose values are taken up in the new nursing curriculum. Several teaching units are participating in the development of skill 5: Initiating and implementing educational and preventative care". This new element in the training programme is leading to real cultural evolution in professional practice.