[Follow-up care at home after outpatient surgery]. / La suite des soins à domicile après chirurgie ambulatoire.

Private nurses have an important role to play in the healthcare system, notably within the framework of outpatient surgery. They are often underestimated, but they are on the front lines when it comes to informing patients, reassuring them and caring for them. They must therefore master the processes of outpatient surgery and those of enhanced recovery after surgery. Their skills need to be upgraded.