#SFHH2610764AFrance Sets List of Nursing Acts and Care Services
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The order defines which assessments, tests, data collection tasks, and care interventions registered nurses in France can perform as part of their own professional role. It covers areas such as clinical assessment, mental health and suicide risk screening, sexual health needs, nutrition, addiction support, pain management, fall prevention, biological sample collection, rapid diagnostic tests, STI screening, tuberculosis test reading, and standard electrocardiograms in team-based care. The practical effect is to clarify and broaden what nurses may do without needing every task to be treated as a separate physician-led act. Health facilities, clinics, care homes, and community health providers will need to align nursing protocols, training, supervision, and care pathways with this list.
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Key Changes
- Defines a detailed list of assessments and care actions registered nurses may carry out within their own role
- Allows nurses to collect biological samples and perform or read several rapid or standardized screening tests
- Clarifies nursing involvement in prevention and monitoring areas such as mental health, falls, nutrition, addiction, pain, sexual health, and treatment tolerance
Obligations
What this law requires
Registered nurses may perform patient needs assessment and clinical response evaluation using standardized tools and scales within their own professional role and current scientific knowledge.
Registered nurses may identify and evaluate psychological distress, suicide risk, frailty, and psychosocial vulnerabilities, and put prevention strategies in place within their competence.
Registered nurses may identify sexual disorders and assess sexual health needs, adapting the assessment to the patient’s age, vulnerabilities, or disabilities.
Registered nurses may identify eating disorders, undernutrition, and malnutrition, and assess nutrition and hydration status, providing education and support and involving a competent health professional where appropriate.
Registered nurses may identify changes in a patient’s physical or psychological health, including reading biological exam results to detect abnormalities for physician information or alert, and may adapt the nursing care plan within their competence.