Soins; la revue de référence infirmière
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The number of patients attending emergency departments is constantly growing. They are fast becoming a place of primary care. ⋯ The reception of the patients by the triage nurse is professional. With tension often high in emergency departments, triage nurses play a role in defusing situations, which could constitute the next area of focus of their professionalization.
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Proposal no. 10 in French Senate information report no. 685, drawn up by the Social Affairs Commission on hospital emergency departments, opens the debate regarding the creation of an emergency nursing speciality. Does this represent progress for the profession or an inadapted measure? The complex situation of emergency departments raises the need for methodological thinking on this subject.