[Sustainable development and daily care of the patient]. / Développement durable et prise en charge journalière du patient.

How can we actively participate in sustainable development when we are nurses, orderlies or health care agents? Are nurses simply executors, users of equipment and consumers of products or, on the contrary, major contributors to the evolution towards more eco-responsible care practices? A shared reflection and a commitment from all hospital staff could encourage active participation in health establishments.

[Prepare and train professionals to deal with odours]. / Préparer et former les soignants à la confrontation aux odeurs.

In their daily practice, caregivers experience many different smells that evoke different emotions. However, the role of the sense of smell in care is poorly documented in the nursing literature. During initial training, trainers organise support, including with regard to odours, so that each future carer becomes a reflective practitioner, as adaptable as possible.

[Building the emotional skills of caregivers for a better workplace environment]. / Compétences émotionnelles et mieux-être au travail.

Emotional skills refer to the ability to identify, understand, express, use one's emotions and those of others. For caregivers, who are experiencing increasingly stressful work conditions and who are accompanying people going through painful moments in their lives, emotional skills are a valuable tool. They make it easier to take a step back from the professional and personal experience and thus promote a better quality of life at work. They concern health students in their initial training.

[Introducing research knowledge to nursing students during their initial training: The situation of nursing schools in Lorraine.] / Initiation à la culture de recherche auprès des étudiants en soins infirmiers en formation initiale : état des lieux dans les ifsi lorrains.

Since 2009, the new nursing training curriculum has included the topic of research in three teaching units in order to introduce it to nursing students. This move has signaled a new era for nurses in France. The development and the durability of research will allow for the marked appearance of a discipline in nursing sciences. Some educators from Lorraine have been carrying out a survey in order to identify the existing means in their nursing schools that can help promote a culture of research right from the beginning of training, through encouraging reading and writing. A mixed methodology has been used and the enquiry has been carried out with a questionnaire addressed to 180 health educators from seventeen nursing schools. The results show a large discrepancy in the schools' resources, but also in the means used to encourage their students to read or write professional or scientific articles. The variety of results seems to be due to the geographical distances between the schools and the universities. The work that the students undertake consists primarily of the professional writings required by the curriculum. Educational approaches to establishing this subject within the schools as well as methodological approaches to reading, writing and their diffusion should therefore be encouraged.

[The evolution of nursing record-keeping]. / Regard sur l'évolution des écrits professionnels infirmiers.

Nursing record-keeping forms an integral part of the provision of care. It helps to assure its traceability and monitoring. It also contributes to the circulation of information among the different players involved in the patient's treatment, thereby helping to assure the quality and safety of care. For nurses, whose professional history has its roots in a culture of oral communication, record-keeping represents the affirmation of a real nursing way of thinking.

[The professional reading group, a space for sharing knowledge]. / Le club de lecture professionnel, un espace de partage de savoirs.

Reading groups, staples of libraries and associations, offer an original space for sharing when, within teams of nurses or trainers, diverted from their habitual objects, they focus on professional themes. Writing is shared no longer as a leisure activity, but as a convivial time of training in a group of professionals. This article shares the experience of a nurse training institute in Nancy.

[Adverse event sheets, a quality improvement tool]. / Les fiches d'événements indésirables, un outil d'amélioration de la qualité.

The declaration of adverse events comprises a written nurse report which helps to improve the quality and safety of care. Submitted to professionals from the quality department, this report will be used to perform an analysis of the causes and must therefore be descriptive and objective.

Psychological care.

Pierre works now in a health and social centre for autistic children. He takes care of Gilles, a three year old, who has just been diagnosed with autism. This evening, his mother, Mrs Wilson, is picking him up.

Giving a Newborn a Bath in her Parents' Presence.

Today, Sophie is working on the maternity ward. She is going to give Manon, David and Laura's first born, a bath. Manon was born on the day before. She weighs 3.350kg and is 49cm long. She has already got a lot of fuzzy brown hair. Both parents are looking forward to watching and learning how to care for their new baby.

[Practice analysis: culture shock and adaptation at work]. / Analyse de pratiques: choc culturel et adaptation au travail.

Constructed as a practice analysis, this personal account presents the reflection undertaken by a student on placement in Ireland thanks to the Erasmus programme. She describes in detail the stages of her adaptation in a hospital setting which is considerably different to her usual environment.

Dressing on an Incisional Wound Following a Knee Replacement.

This Tuesday, Sophie is carrying out a dressing change on Mrs Savoy's wound. Mrs Savoy is on her third post operative day following her knee replacement. Sophie goes to Mrs Savoy's room to explain what she is intending to do.

[The place of patients and their families as healthcare stakeholders in Europe]. / Europe, quelle place pour le patient et sa famille dans les soins ?

In the context of the Erasmus student exchange program, nursing students in the second year of their studies at the Institut de Formation en Soins Infirmiers Lionnois (Lionnois Nursing Care Training Institute) in Nancy undertook internships in different European countries. The place given to patients and their families as healthcare stakeholders takes on various forms. Some students share their experience and talk about the situations they encountered in Estonia, Italy and Romania.