[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.